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Jamaica JM

Latin America & Caribbean · Upper middle income · capital Kingston

Population
2,837,077
2025
GDP
$22.7 billion
2025
Life expectancy
71.6 y
2024

In the live services

corpusrows for this country
recipes10
legal1

Geospatial extent

Bounding box -78.37°–-76.19° E, 17.70°–18.53° N · centroid 18.11, -77.28 · source natural-earth-1:110m

Map © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Extent only; no cadastre or address data.

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Top research institutions

OpenAlex works counts; not a quality ranking.

Legal system

common law system based on the English model

CIA World Factbook (factbook.json)

Measured indicators

indicatorvalueyearsource
account_ownership73.32021World Bank FX.OWN.TOTL.ZS
Account ownership (% age 15+)73.32021World Bank
Agricultural land (% of land)39.02024World Bank
air_freight0.02019World Bank IS.AIR.GOOD.MT.K1
airline_routes_departures75.02026OpenFlights route database
airports_openflights6.02026OpenFlights airport database
airports_total1,215.32018World Bank IS.AIR.DPRT
armed_forces_pct0.42020World Bank MS.MIL.TOTL.TF.ZS
armed_forces_personnel6,000.02020World Bank MS.MIL.TOTL.P1
Arms imports (SIPRI TIV)10,000,000.02024World Bank
arrivals1,329,700.02020World Bank ST.INT.ARVL
atm_per_100k39.02024World Bank FB.ATM.TOTL.P5
bachelors_attainment_pct10.92022World Bank SE.TER.CUAT.BA.ZS
bank_branches_p56.92024World Bank FB.CBK.BRCH.P5
basic_water_pct87.62024World Bank
B-READY business entry (0-100)80.92025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY business insolvency (0-100)51.72025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY business location (0-100)57.92025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY dispute resolution (0-100)48.72025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY financial services (0-100)79.02025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY international trade (0-100)58.12025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY labour (0-100)68.82025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY market competition (0-100)41.52025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY Pillar 3 operational efficiency (0-100)60.52025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY Pillar 2 public services (0-100)57.12025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY Pillar 1 regulatory framework (0-100)64.12025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY taxation (0-100)55.82025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
B-READY utility services (0-100)62.92025World Bank Business Ready (B-READY) 2025, keyless public dataset
broad_money_growth12.82025World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.ZG
broad_money_pct65.82025World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS
broad_money_pct_gdp65.82025World Bank FM.LBL.BMNY.GD.ZS
budget_debt_pct_gdp97.92020World Bank
budget_expense_pct_gdp27.52020World Bank
central_gov_debt_pct_gdp97.92020World Bank GC.DOD.TOTL.GD.ZS
cereal_tonnes2,381.02024World Bank AG.PRD.CREL.MT
che_gdp_pct7.62023WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHEGDP_SHA2011
che_per_capita_usd520.22023WHO Global Health Observatory GHED_CHE_pc_US_SHA2011
child_stunting_pct4.62018World Bank World Development Indicators (2026)
claims_on_central_gov7.92025World Bank FS.AST.CGOV.GD.ZS
clean_fuels_cooking93.02024World Bank EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS
Clinical trials involving this country (ClinicalTrials.gov)81.02026ClinicalTrials.gov v2 (country from trial locations)
container_port_traffic2,349,405.02024World Bank IS.SHP.GOOD.TU
container_traffic_teu33.82021World Bank IS.SHP.GCNW.XQ
contradictions_total3.02026encyclopedia.db prose claim graph (precision-gated advisory; P17/P27 subject)
cpi233.22025World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL
crime_unodc_cts_assault1,407.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Assault.xls
crime_unodc_cts_assault_rate51.32010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Assault.xls
crime_unodc_cts_burglary_cts_2011_burglary717.02009https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Burglary.xls
crime_unodc_cts_burglary_cts_2011_burglary_rate26.32009https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Burglary.xls
crime_unodc_cts_burglary_cts_2011_domestic_burglary1,599.02009https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Burglary.xls
crime_unodc_cts_burglary_cts_2011_domestic_burglary_rate58.62009https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Burglary.xls
crime_unodc_cts_kidnapping43.02008https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Kidnapping.xls
crime_unodc_cts_kidnapping_rate1.62008https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Kidnapping.xls
crime_unodc_cts_robbery2,770.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Robbery.xls
crime_unodc_cts_robbery_rate101.12010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Robbery.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_rape668.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_rape_rate24.42010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_sexual_violence1,206.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_sexual_violence_rate44.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_sv_against_children1,422.02010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_cts_sexual_violence_cts_2011_sv_against_children_rate51.92010https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls
crime_unodc_intentional_homicide_victims85.12016https://data.humdata.org/dataset/dcfea0b9-3f1d-47d8-b118-5207bc6149b5/resource/da23d592-5bc9-4068-aaaf-844cf914faca/download/homicide_report_total_and_sex.xlsx
crop_production_idx103.32024World Bank AG.PRD.CROP.XD
cts_assault_count1,680.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_assault_rate59.22024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_homicide_count1,146.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_homicide_rate40.42024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_homicide_suspects676.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_robbery_count869.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_robbery_rate30.62024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_sexual_violence_count426.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
cts_sexual_violence_rate15.02024UNODC Crime Trends Survey (CTS) member-state responses, data.unodc.org bulk download (keyless)
Ease of doing business rank (archived DB2020)71.02020World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021)
Ease of doing business score (archived DB2020)69.72020World Bank Doing Business archive (DB2020 revised, project discontinued 2021)
defense_spend_usd286,646,045.72025World Bank MS.MIL.XPND.CD
dentists_per_10k20.92024WHO Global Health Observatory HWF_0006
deposit_rate5.22025World Bank FR.INR.DPST
deposit_rate_pct5.22025World Bank FR.INR.DPST
Emigrants living abroad (UN DESA 2020)643,909.02020UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx)
International migrant stock (UN DESA 2020)11,621.02020UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2020 (bulk xlsx)
showing 80 of 71,529 measured series — full list: CSV · JSON

Language

English canonical body. 280 name labels held (Wikidata). Missing languages are absent, not machine-translated.

Lane coverage

Measured, not promised
lanestatus what exists
patents · serviceYELLOW · partialpatent application counts (residents + non-residents) from the World Bank/WIPO series; patent documents are not ingested source
legal · serviceYELLOW · partial1 primary-law documents, 0 with full text mirrored (newest 2023); corpus covers this jurisdiction's official texts, not every instrument ever made source
alerts · serviceGREEN · ingested0 alerts in current GDACS/USGS window (measured, not an all-clear). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full current GDACS (125) + USGS (284) window (409 alert rows) with per-record metadata. Kept green. source
defense · serviceGREEN · ingestedmilitary expenditure (% of GDP), SIPRI series via World Bank; not procurement, capabilities or intent source
space · serviceYELLOW · partialno orbital launch site in this country in the GCAT launch log (1942-2026) source
maps · serviceGREEN · ingestedNatural Earth 1:10m boundary + centroid + bbox area computed (1.8 deg2); no cadastre, address data or navigation map. GADM L0 fallback: ok (gadm41_JAM_0.json). | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — Natural Earth 1:10m boundary + GADM L0 fallback for every mapped country; complete geodata record set. Kept green. source
passport · serviceGLOBAL · service livepass.go-v.org is live; per-country identity documents are NOT ingested source
research · serviceGREEN · ingested4,447 scholarly works since 2021 with authoring institutions here (OpenAlex); a publication index, not a quality ranking source
economy · serviceGREEN · ingestedGDP per capita, current US$ (World Bank); not a cost-of-living or inequality measure source
health · serviceGREEN · ingestedlife expectancy at birth, World Bank; not a health system performance rating source
education · serviceYELLOW · partialprimary school enrolment (% gross), World Bank; tertiary data is shown when available source
energy · serviceGREEN · ingestedaccess to electricity (% of population), World Bank source
water · serviceYELLOW · partialat least basic drinking water (% of population), World Bank/WHO; safely managed data shown when available source
connectivity · serviceYELLOW · partialfixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people, World Bank/ITU; internet-user share shown when available source
crimeGREEN · ingestedstale data (2023) intentional homicides per 100,000 people (UNODC series via World Bank); recorded homicides only source
conflictYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UCDP/GDELT event corpus. source
businessYELLOW · partialnewly registered limited-liability companies (World Bank/IC.BUS.NREG); not a company register source
scienceGREEN · ingestedstale data (2002) OpenAlex institutions snapshot 2026-10: 18 institutions, works counted per country; CC0 1.0. source
prisonYELLOW · partialstale data (2023) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full World Prison Brief prison corpus. source
interpolYELLOW · partial49 public Interpol Red Notice(s) in the 2026-11-08T00:47:49Z snapshot list a national of this country. Not a crime rate; Interpol controls/withdraws notices and the unfiltered public API is capped, so the set is incomplete. source
armsYELLOW · partialSIPRI arms-transfer trend indicator values (imports and exports) via the World Bank; TIV is a trend measure, not currency source
sanctionsGREEN · ingestedOFAC SDN 6 + UN consolidated 0 + EU 0 designation reference(s), snapshot 2026-10-26; counts are list references (text/code attribution), not convictions or proof of activity; 0 is a measured zero against these three ingested lists | 2026-10-29 audit: VERIFIED COMPLETE — full OFAC SDN (19,471), UN consolidated (1,001) and EU (11,154) designation lists with per-record metadata (snapshot 2026-10-26). Kept green. source
agricultureGREEN · ingestedagricultural land (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source
foodYELLOW · partialprevalence of undernourishment (%), World Bank/FAO; a modelled estimate, not a survey of every household source
laborYELLOW · partialunemployment (% of labour force), ILO modelled estimate via World Bank source
financeYELLOW · partialaccount ownership (% age 15+), World Bank Findex source
environmentGREEN · ingestedforest area (% of land area), World Bank/FAO source
tradeYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UN Comtrade/trade corpus. source
migrationYELLOW · partialnet migration (5-year estimate), World Bank/UN source
tourismYELLOW · partialinternational tourist arrivals, World Bank/UNWTO source
housingYELLOW · partialurban population (% of total), World Bank; not a housing-cost or tenure measure source
transportYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 8 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full transport-network corpus. source
investmentYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full FDI/investment corpus. source
remittancesYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WB/IMF remittance corpus. source
health_financeYELLOW · partialstale data (2023) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full WHO GHED health-finance corpus. source
budgetYELLOW · partialstale data (2020) 2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full national budget/tender corpus. source
treatyYELLOW · partial2026-10-29 audit: demoted green->yellow (SERIES_ONLY). 0 of 1 text corpus (0%); 1 numeric series/indicator(s) only. Missing: full UNTC treaty-text corpus. source

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Backlinks

Department pages with measured records for Jamaica:

patents legal alerts defense space maps research economy health education energy water connectivity crime conflict business science prison interpol arms sanctions agriculture food labor finance environment trade migration tourism housing transport investment remittances health_finance budget treaty

patents recipes legal alerts defense space passport research

estate.json .well-known alias

Cite this page

Jamaica (JM). go-v.org estate, https://estate.116.202.234.183.nip.io/jm. Data: World Bank Open Data, OpenAlex, WIPO, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap. Accessed 2026-11-08.