Population in Jamaica compared to Syria: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Jamaica and Syria: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Jamaica	Syria	Jamaica	Syria
1960	1,650,005	4,673,500	-	-
1961	1,673,261	4,815,466	1.41%	3.04%
1962	1,696,932	4,959,340	1.41%	2.99%
1963	1,721,099	5,110,467	1.42%	3.05%
1964	1,745,568	5,269,087	1.42%	3.1%
1965	1,769,192	5,435,267	1.35%	3.15%
1966	1,791,475	5,609,047	1.26%	3.2%
1967	1,812,865	5,790,198	1.19%	3.23%
1968	1,833,765	5,978,742	1.15%	3.26%
1969	1,855,127	6,175,166	1.16%	3.29%
1970	1,878,196	6,380,609	1.24%	3.33%
1971	1,903,728	6,598,094	1.36%	3.41%
1972	1,931,542	6,826,024	1.46%	3.45%
1973	1,961,219	7,060,321	1.54%	3.43%
1974	1,990,906	7,302,160	1.51%	3.43%
1975	2,018,981	7,554,364	1.41%	3.45%
1976	2,045,578	7,817,320	1.32%	3.48%
1977	2,070,657	8,090,501	1.23%	3.49%
1978	2,094,836	8,372,759	1.17%	3.49%
1979	2,119,486	8,661,909	1.18%	3.45%
1980	2,145,658	8,957,663	1.23%	3.41%
1981	2,173,818	9,260,189	1.31%	3.38%
1982	2,203,889	9,572,511	1.38%	3.37%
1983	2,234,832	9,904,809	1.4%	3.47%
1984	2,264,562	10,258,398	1.33%	3.57%
1985	2,290,656	10,625,672	1.15%	3.58%
1986	2,312,125	11,002,844	0.94%	3.55%
1987	2,329,813	11,388,923	0.77%	3.51%
1988	2,345,777	11,782,264	0.69%	3.45%
1989	2,361,916	12,179,060	0.69%	3.37%
1990	2,379,877	12,579,208	0.76%	3.29%
1991	2,400,869	12,980,821	0.88%	3.19%
1992	2,424,701	13,385,571	0.99%	3.12%
1993	2,449,916	13,795,686	1.04%	3.06%
1994	2,475,220	14,208,583	1.03%	2.99%
1995	2,500,151	14,616,801	1.01%	2.87%
1996	2,524,463	15,018,104	0.97%	2.75%
1997	2,547,848	15,417,542	0.93%	2.66%
1998	2,569,736	15,820,413	0.86%	2.61%
1999	2,589,795	16,228,061	0.78%	2.58%
2000	2,607,826	16,637,888	0.7%	2.53%
2001	2,624,403	17,051,338	0.64%	2.48%
2002	2,640,572	17,468,332	0.62%	2.45%
2003	2,656,623	17,889,296	0.61%	2.41%
2004	2,672,225	18,336,875	0.59%	2.5%
2005	2,687,066	18,814,091	0.56%	2.6%
2006	2,700,968	19,637,022	0.52%	4.37%
2007	2,713,800	20,884,125	0.48%	6.35%
2008	2,725,635	21,636,564	0.44%	3.6%
2009	2,736,995	21,976,969	0.42%	1.57%
2010	2,748,568	22,482,421	0.42%	2.3%
2011	2,760,494	22,878,098	0.43%	1.76%
2012	2,772,430	22,759,763	0.43%	-0.52%
2013	2,783,687	21,666,917	0.41%	-4.8%
2014	2,793,749	20,273,659	0.36%	-6.43%
2015	2,802,534	19,424,618	0.31%	-4.19%
2016	2,809,915	19,193,834	0.26%	-1.19%
2017	2,815,764	19,224,668	0.21%	0.16%
2018	2,820,097	19,577,845	0.15%	1.84%
2019	2,823,271	20,353,534	0.11%	3.96%
2020	2,830,739	21,049,429	0.26%	3.42%
2021	2,837,682	21,628,839	0.25%	2.75%
2022	2,839,144	22,462,173	0.05%	3.85%
2023	2,839,786	23,594,623	0.02%	5.04%
2024	2,839,175	24,672,760	-0.02%	4.57%
2025	2,837,071	25,620,422	-0.07%	3.84%
2026	2,833,401	26,472,499	-0.13%	3.33%
2027	2,828,530	27,261,544	-0.17%	2.98%
2028	2,822,861	28,006,558	-0.2%	2.73%
2029	2,816,391	28,719,309	-0.23%	2.54%
2030	2,808,946	29,395,545	-0.26%	2.35%
2031	2,800,607	30,029,824	-0.3%	2.16%
2032	2,791,130	30,633,661	-0.34%	2.01%
2033	2,780,468	31,212,478	-0.38%	1.89%
2034	2,768,714	31,768,138	-0.42%	1.78%
2035	2,755,929	32,294,792	-0.46%	1.66%
2036	2,742,071	32,788,153	-0.5%	1.53%
2037	2,726,892	33,258,407	-0.55%	1.43%
2038	2,710,812	33,710,718	-0.59%	1.36%
2039	2,693,901	34,131,238	-0.62%	1.25%
2040	2,676,087	34,533,185	-0.66%	1.18%
2041	2,657,558	34,916,936	-0.69%	1.11%
2042	2,638,085	35,279,863	-0.73%	1.04%
2043	2,617,576	35,623,325	-0.78%	0.97%
2044	2,596,160	35,944,394	-0.82%	0.9%
2045	2,574,074	36,265,295	-0.85%	0.89%
2046	2,551,347	36,583,260	-0.88%	0.88%
2047	2,528,004	36,878,640	-0.91%	0.81%
2048	2,504,191	37,171,029	-0.94%	0.79%
2049	2,479,744	37,477,690	-0.98%	0.83%
2050	2,454,935	37,793,378	-1%	0.84%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jamaica increased by 115,468 people (a 4.3% growth), while Syria gained 610,527 people (a 3.25% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jamaica gained 34,537 (a 1.23% growth), while Syria's population increased by 6,880,259 (a 35.4% growth).

Jamaica was ranked 135th most populous country in 2005 and is 140th in 2025. Syria was ranked 58th in 2005 and ranked 57th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Jamaica's population will shrink by 13.5% to 2,454,935 people with a rank change from 140th to 144th. The population of Syria will increase by 43.7% to 37,793,378 people and rank change from 57th to 54th.