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IndicatorJAMJamaicaLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.88rank #35
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile45.9rank #91
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #21
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.66rank #29
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.92rank #15
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile54.7rank #89
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.88rank #35
Military spending% GDP1.3%rank #94
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.52rank #31
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile74rank #75
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile56.3rank #83
Rule of Law0-100 percentile55.6rank #101
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.85rank #37
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.81rank #20
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.68rank #30
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile65.3rank #65
Women in parliament% seats30.2%rank #69
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #11
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment13.9%rank #94
Agriculture value added% GDP8.7%rank #66
Annual working hours per workerhours1,962.7rank #68
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker116,230.7rank #101
Current account balance% GDP3.1%rank #41
Employment-to-population ratio%67.2%rank #26
External debt stocks% GNI76.1%rank #92
FDI net inflows% GDP1.4%rank #132
GDPcurrent US$22.7Brank #123
GDP growth%0.08%rank #176
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$8,002.9rank #92
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $11,357.9rank #117
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $10,057rank #119
Government expenditure% GDP27.5%rank #74
High-technology exports% manuf. exports2.6%rank #115
Human capital indexindex2.6rank #91
Industry value added% GDP16.3%rank #135
Inflation%4%rank #115
Labour force participation rate%69.7%rank #30
Personal remittances received% GDP16.2%rank #16
R&D expenditure% GDP0.06%rank #86
Tax revenue% GDP23.7%rank #16
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.39rank #100
Unemployment% labor force3.3%rank #49
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3.6%rank #61
Vulnerable employment% employment31.6%rank #98
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2410.8%rank #80
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2411.5%rank #86
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop87.6%rank #122
Basic sanitation access% pop91.6%rank #91
Child mortalityper 1001.8rank #81
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,892.1rank #102
DTP3 immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Health spending% GDP7.6%rank #68
Infant mortalityper 1k births16.4rank #79
Life expectancyyears71.6rank #142
Maternal mortalityper 100k130rank #66
Measles immunization% children94%rank #6
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%94%rank #6
Physiciansper 1k0.46rank #40
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m321.7rank #125
Road traffic deathsper 100k15.1rank #61
Smoking prevalence% adults11.5%rank #31
Suicide mortality rateper 100k1.7rank #16
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k2.3rank #11
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births17.8rank #116
Undernourishment% pop7.7%rank #29
Education
Adult literacy%79.9%rank #6
Education spending% GDP5.5%rank #10
Expected years of schoolingyears12.4rank #131
Mean years of schoolingyears10rank #94
Primary completion rate% relevant age83.6%rank #88
Primary enrollment% gross97.3%rank #84
Secondary enrollment% gross84.5%rank #82
Tertiary enrollment% gross26.2%rank #99
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00011.5rank #127
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.4rank #174
Median age of populationyears31.7rank #105
Net migration rateper 1,000-3.5rank #173
Populationpeople2.84Mrank #140
Population growth%-0.07%rank #177
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years75rank #148
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands2,454.9rank #146
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age37rank #208
Urban population%59.4%rank #118
Climate
CO₂ emissionst8.4Mrank #116
CO₂ per capitat3rank #106
Electricity access% pop97.7%rank #14
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation2.4%rank #122
Electricity from solar% generation3.1%rank #93
Electricity from wind% generation5.9%rank #43
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,204.7rank #102
Forest area% land56.2%rank #36
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita3.6rank #76
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh563rank #128
Renewable electricity%12.6%rank #132
Renewable energy share%10.5%rank #128
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e10.3rank #49
Society
Asylum seekerspeople7,541rank #111
Extreme poverty% pop1.4%rank #12
Female labor participation%63%rank #29
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10016rank #82
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #15
Gender Inequality Index0-10.36rank #80
Gini indexindex39.9rank #52
Homicide rateper 100k49.4rank #81
Human Development Index0-10.72rank #91
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.59rank #82
Internet users% pop90.1%rank #53
Life satisfaction0-106.3rank #47
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.69rank #57
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #66
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #34
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.03rank #82
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.14rank #107
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people31rank #149
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people2,642rank #90
Youth NEET rate%20.3%rank #105
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-104.1rank #35
Human hazard & exposure0-103.1rank #27
INFORM risk score0-103.8rank #27
Lack of coping capacity0-103.5rank #27
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-102.8rank #25
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-104.2rank #21
Natural hazard & exposure0-105rank #37
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year51rank #13
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.1rank #42
Vulnerability0-103.7rank #26
Vulnerable groups0-103.2rank #27
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