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Jamaica

2,837,077

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-2.1K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+8.8%from 2.61M
Life expectancy71.6 years2024
Fertility rate1.35births per woman · 2024
Urban population59.4%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Jamaica is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1418.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6473.1%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate11.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate8.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+3.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-11.05Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Jamaica look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 2.45M in 2050—13.5% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20242.84M
  2. 20502.45M
  3. 21001.07M
Median age in 205046.0years
Births in 205018.72Kduring the year
Deaths in 205033.98Kduring the year
Life expectancy75.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.65M
  2. 19701.88M
  3. 19802.15M
  4. 19902.38M
  5. 20002.61M
  6. 20102.75M
  7. 20202.83M
  8. 20252.84M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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