Sworn Score
Country profile
Jamaica
North America · Capital: Kingston
Score 70.5 ± 5 · Rank #21 of scored countries in 1981.
Based on 88/123 indicators, avg data age 1.7 years.
Category breakdown
How Jamaica scores across the 7 dimensions
Weight-normalized averages over the indicators that have data. Categories below 70% coverage of their own indicators are suppressed.
Health
56.7
Economy
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Governance
93.3
Education
61.0
Infrastructure
—
Environment
—
Rights
71.7
Promises
Latest promise updates
6 achieved · 1 on track · 10 failing · 1 tracking
History
Jamaica — Sworn Score over time
Each year is a snapshot using that year's methodology (trimmed-bounds over the trailing 5-year value pool). Click a column header to sort.
Change since 1976: -13.4 points
| Year | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1965 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — |
| 1967 | — | — |
| 1968 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — |
| 1971 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — |
| 1973 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — |
| 1975 | — | — |
| 1976 | 72.4 | 4 |
| 1977 | 72.5 | 5 |
| 1978 | 72.5 | 6 |
| 1979 | 72.1 | 7 |
| 1980 | 70.7 | 15 |
| 1981 | 70.5 | 21 |
| 1982 | 68.3 | 24 |
| 1983 | 69.6 | 23 |
| 1984 | 63.2 | 23 |
| 1985 | 63.5 | 29 |
| 1986 | 62.6 | 36 |
| 1987 | 62.7 | 39 |
| 1988 | 62.9 | 39 |
| 1989 | 63.3 | 42 |
| 1990 | 60.6 | 51 |
| 1991 | 62.1 | 45 |
| 1992 | 62.0 | 55 |
| 1993 | 63.8 | 49 |
| 1994 | 64.3 | 52 |
| 1995 | 64.6 | 52 |
| 1996 | 58.6 | 59 |
| 1997 | 57.4 | 65 |
| 1998 | 57.6 | 77 |
| 1999 | 58.6 | 69 |
| 2000 | 59.6 | 61 |
| 2001 | 58.6 | 65 |
| 2002 | 59.6 | 61 |
| 2003 | 58.7 | 64 |
| 2004 | 59.4 | 65 |
| 2005 | 58.7 | 68 |
| 2006 | 59.1 | 68 |
| 2007 | 58.8 | 73 |
| 2008 | 57.9 | 75 |
| 2009 | 57.5 | 78 |
| 2010 | 56.9 | 78 |
| 2011 | 57.4 | 76 |
| 2012 | 57.1 | 79 |
| 2013 | 55.6 | 85 |
| 2014 | 56.2 | 83 |
| 2015 | 57.0 | 79 |
| 2016 | 57.6 | 75 |
| 2017 | 57.7 | 76 |
| 2018 | 58.8 | 72 |
| 2019 | 58.7 | 75 |
| 2020 | 56.3 | 78 |
| 2021 | 58.0 | 77 |
| 2022 | 59.1 | 72 |
| 2023 | 58.5 | 72 |
| 2024 | 59.0 | 70 |
| 2025 | 58.1 | 76 |
| 2026 | 59.0 | 67 |