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Jamaica — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Jamaica, 1967–2025.
Latest value · 2025
0.08%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -95.5% since 1967
GDP growth for Jamaica was 0.08% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 59 years, from 1967 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 18.01% in 1972. The lowest was -8.30% in 2020 (about -101.7× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -5.20% per year.
Jamaica ranks 195 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 92%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 3.38%, so Jamaica sits below it. It peaked in 1972 and has fallen 100% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved down 91%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
0.08%
First (1967)
1.81%
Change
-95.5%
Highest
18.01%
in 1972
Lowest
-8.30%
in 2020
Average
1.54%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-5.20%
Years of data
59
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.08% |
| 2024 | -0.54% |
| 2023 | 2.75% |
| 2022 | 6.44% |
| 2021 | 5.7% |
| 2020 | -8.3% |
| 2019 | 1.81% |
| 2018 | 2.52% |
| 2017 | 2.29% |
| 2016 | 2.76% |
| 2015 | 0.92% |
| 2014 | 0.69% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.