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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Jamaica was 2,839,175 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Jamaica's population is 2,837,071 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 25.2 times bigger than Jamaica's.
  • Jamaica is ranked the 140th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.03% for Jamaica vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Jamaica has had an average growth rate of +0.18% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Jamaica has increased from 2.69M people to 2.84M (5.58% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Both countries are in a period of decline and in 50 years are projected to lose 39.6% of the population in Jamaica and 22.9% in Thailand.

Jamaica vs Thailand: live population counter

Jamaica Thailand
Current population
2837071
71619867
Population rank 140/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.03% 0.87%
One net population change
14.3 hours
15.3 minutes
One birth every
15.9 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
22.9 minutes
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
50 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change -10,506 +23,321
Daily growth/decline -2 -94
Annual growth/decline -611 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate -0.02% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 167/197 170/197

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

Jamaica
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Jamaica Thailand Jamaica Thailand
1960 1,650,005 26,851,747 - -
1961 1,673,261 27,650,334 1.41% 2.97%
1962 1,696,932 28,481,040 1.41% 3%
1963 1,721,099 29,342,322 1.42% 3.02%
1964 1,745,568 30,232,141 1.42% 3.03%
1965 1,769,192 31,149,337 1.35% 3.03%
1966 1,791,475 32,086,071 1.26% 3.01%
1967 1,812,865 33,037,801 1.19% 2.97%
1968 1,833,765 34,002,560 1.15% 2.92%
1969 1,855,127 34,973,782 1.16% 2.86%
1970 1,878,196 35,954,408 1.24% 2.8%
1971 1,903,728 36,937,387 1.36% 2.73%
1972 1,931,542 37,933,929 1.46% 2.7%
1973 1,961,219 38,947,787 1.54% 2.67%
1974 1,990,906 39,952,891 1.51% 2.58%
1975 2,018,981 40,940,005 1.41% 2.47%
1976 2,045,578 41,896,504 1.32% 2.34%
1977 2,070,657 42,843,974 1.23% 2.26%
1978 2,094,836 43,788,976 1.17% 2.21%
1979 2,119,486 44,718,434 1.18% 2.12%
1980 2,145,658 45,650,022 1.23% 2.08%
1981 2,173,818 46,575,855 1.31% 2.03%
1982 2,203,889 47,494,577 1.38% 1.97%
1983 2,234,832 48,423,309 1.4% 1.96%
1984 2,264,562 49,351,708 1.33% 1.92%
1985 2,290,656 50,270,753 1.15% 1.86%
1986 2,312,125 51,177,834 0.94% 1.8%
1987 2,329,813 52,074,105 0.77% 1.75%
1988 2,345,777 52,969,595 0.69% 1.72%
1989 2,361,916 53,848,956 0.69% 1.66%
1990 2,379,877 54,738,329 0.76% 1.65%
1991 2,400,869 55,637,434 0.88% 1.64%
1992 2,424,701 56,528,834 0.99% 1.6%
1993 2,449,916 57,408,198 1.04% 1.56%
1994 2,475,220 58,260,854 1.03% 1.49%
1995 2,500,151 59,098,232 1.01% 1.44%
1996 2,524,463 59,920,064 0.97% 1.39%
1997 2,547,848 60,724,584 0.93% 1.34%
1998 2,569,736 61,522,630 0.86% 1.31%
1999 2,589,795 62,299,043 0.78% 1.26%
2000 2,607,826 63,007,815 0.7% 1.14%
2001 2,624,403 63,651,141 0.64% 1.02%
2002 2,640,572 64,266,437 0.62% 0.97%
2003 2,656,623 64,868,166 0.61% 0.94%
2004 2,672,225 65,452,047 0.59% 0.9%
2005 2,687,066 66,017,420 0.56% 0.86%
2006 2,700,968 66,567,687 0.52% 0.83%
2007 2,713,800 67,102,394 0.48% 0.8%
2008 2,725,635 67,619,830 0.44% 0.77%
2009 2,736,995 68,121,080 0.42% 0.74%
2010 2,748,568 68,579,447 0.42% 0.67%
2011 2,760,494 69,007,208 0.43% 0.62%
2012 2,772,430 69,436,098 0.43% 0.62%
2013 2,783,687 69,845,114 0.41% 0.59%
2014 2,793,749 70,216,367 0.36% 0.53%
2015 2,802,534 70,540,795 0.31% 0.46%
2016 2,809,915 70,859,841 0.26% 0.45%
2017 2,815,764 71,160,187 0.21% 0.42%
2018 2,820,097 71,376,079 0.15% 0.3%
2019 2,823,271 71,522,271 0.11% 0.2%
2020 2,830,739 71,641,484 0.26% 0.17%
2021 2,837,682 71,727,332 0.25% 0.12%
2022 2,839,144 71,735,329 0.05% 0.01%
2023 2,839,786 71,702,435 0.02% -0.05%
2024 2,839,175 71,668,011 -0.02% -0.05%
2025 2,837,071 71,619,867 -0.07% -0.07%
2026 2,833,401 71,559,621 -0.13% -0.08%
2027 2,828,530 71,488,156 -0.17% -0.1%
2028 2,822,861 71,406,996 -0.2% -0.11%
2029 2,816,391 71,316,195 -0.23% -0.13%
2030 2,808,946 71,215,017 -0.26% -0.14%
2031 2,800,607 71,104,025 -0.3% -0.16%
2032 2,791,130 70,982,286 -0.34% -0.17%
2033 2,780,468 70,847,947 -0.38% -0.19%
2034 2,768,714 70,701,651 -0.42% -0.21%
2035 2,755,929 70,540,884 -0.46% -0.23%
2036 2,742,071 70,366,496 -0.5% -0.25%
2037 2,726,892 70,180,031 -0.55% -0.26%
2038 2,710,812 69,979,034 -0.59% -0.29%
2039 2,693,901 69,763,928 -0.62% -0.31%
2040 2,676,087 69,535,003 -0.66% -0.33%
2041 2,657,558 69,288,477 -0.69% -0.35%
2042 2,638,085 69,025,348 -0.73% -0.38%
2043 2,617,576 68,748,075 -0.78% -0.4%
2044 2,596,160 68,456,533 -0.82% -0.42%
2045 2,574,074 68,150,148 -0.85% -0.45%
2046 2,551,347 67,827,309 -0.88% -0.47%
2047 2,528,004 67,489,358 -0.91% -0.5%
2048 2,504,191 67,136,737 -0.94% -0.52%
2049 2,479,744 66,767,316 -0.98% -0.55%
2050 2,454,935 66,382,732 -1% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Jamaica increased by 115,468 people (a 4.3% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Jamaica gained 34,537 (a 1.23% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Jamaica was ranked 135th most populous country in 2005 and is 140th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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