Jamaica poverty rate for 2021 was 13.90%, a 4.8% increase from 2018.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2018 was 9.10%, a 20% decline from 2004.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2004 was 29.10%, a 4.2% decline from 2002.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2002 was 33.30%, a 2.9% increase from 1999.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.