Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
30.0%
+8.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.39%
+0.8 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
5.51%
+2.1 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
66.0%
of GDP · -15 pts since 1999
Population · 2025
2.8m
13.5% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Jamaica yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare fell from 3.2% to 2.0% of GDP between 2000 and 2006, then rose to 4.9% by 2023.
Defence rose from 0.5% to 1.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 1.4% by 2025.
Education rose from 3.4% to 6.4% of GDP between 1995 and 2010, then fell to 5.5% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 22.1% to 37.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then fell to 30.0% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 80.7% to 140.3% of GDP between 1999 and 2012, then fell to 66.0% by 2025.
Population grew from 2.5 million in 1995 to 2.8 million in 2025; the UN projects 2.5 million by 2050.