Jamaica poverty rate for 2021 was 22.90%, a 4.6% increase from 2018.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2018 was 18.30%, a 26% decline from 2004.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2004 was 44.30%, a 2.3% decline from 2002.
Jamaica poverty rate for 2002 was 46.60%, a 1.5% 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.