Jamaica Population Growth Rate 1950-2024 (2024)

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Jamaica Population Growth Rate 1950-2024? ›

Between 1950 and 2024 the population of Jamaica grown from 1,407,470 people to 2,824,738. An increase of the population size by 100.7% in 73 years.

Population. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects the total population was 2,827,695 in 2021, compared to only 1,403,000 in 1950.

Population of Jamaica in 2024

The population of Jamaica stood at 2.83 million in January 2024. Data shows that Jamaica's population decreased by 439 (-0.02 percent) between early 2023 and the start of 2024. 50.4 percent of Jamaica's population is female, while 49.6 percent of the population is male.

The world's population is more than three times larger than it was in the mid-twentieth century. The global human population reached 8.0 billion in mid-November 2022 from an estimated 2.5 billion people in 1950, adding 1 billion people since 2010 and 2 billion since 1998.

The current birth rate for Jamaica in 2024 is 14.859 births per 1000 people, a 1.64% decline from 2023. The birth rate for Jamaica in 2023 was 15.107 births per 1000 people, a 1.46% decline from 2022. The birth rate for Jamaica in 2022 was 15.331 births per 1000 people, a 1.45% decline from 2021.

The long 1950s in Jamaica encompassed the pivotal moments that set into motion the infrastructures of modern political, social, economic, and artistic activity. They also brought into relief struggles over the appropriate scales of interaction, whether national, regional, Pan-African, or diasporic.

Jamaica's health transition continued throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the period covered by Chapter 5, with life expectancy at birth rising from 54.6 years in 1950 to 69 years in 1972. Over these two decades, Jamaica's economy expanded more rapidly than ever.

Population in the world is growing at a rate of around 0.91% per year in 2024 (up from 0.88% in 2023, and down from 0.98% in 2020, and 1.06% in 2019). The current population increase is estimated at around 73 million people per year.

From 1950 to 2010, the world population increased from 2.5 billion to 6.9 billion, or by 174%. The average annual rate of growth—1.7%—was much higher than in the U.S. In the future, the global population is expected to increase from 6.9 billion in 2010 to 9.6 billion in 2050, or by 38%.

PIP: The rapid rise in world population for the 4 periods 1950-1955, 1955 -1960, 1960-1965, and 1965-1970 is mainly due to a decline in the crude death rate from 24/1000 in 1950-1955 to 16.1/1000 in 1965-1970.

Why is the Jamaican birth rate so low? ›

“Age specific fertility rates fell in all age groups except 25-29 years and probably reflects a delayed start to childbearing into their late 20s, while women completed their education,” said Professor Affette McCaw-Binns, a sexual and reproductive health and epidemiology expert who was presenting the findings.

Death rate

7.5 deaths/1,000 population (2024 est.)

The original inhabitants of Jamaica were the indigenous Taíno, an Arawak-speaking people who began arriving on Hispaniola by canoe from the Belize and the Yucatan peninsula sometime before 2000 BCE.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the number of slaves in Jamaica did not exceed 45,000, but by 1800 it had increased to over 300,000.

Most Jamaican slaves came from the region of modern day Ghana, Nigeria and Central Africa, and included the Akan, Ashanti, Yoruba, Ibo and Ibibio peoples. By the 18th century, Jamaica had become one of the most valuable British colonies.