On the finish of 2024, Jamaica’s inhabitants confirmed a slight decline and continued demographic shifts, in response to the most recent Financial and Social Survey Jamaica 2024 (ESSJ), printed by the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ).
The report revealed that the island’s inhabitants stood at roughly 2,700,400 folks, representing an estimated 0.1 per cent lower in comparison with earlier figures. Of this complete, there have been about 1,363,700 ladies and 1,336,700 males, leaving the Jamaican inhabitants with roughly 27,000 extra ladies than males.
Jamaica’s demographic profile is transferring deeper into what the ESSJ describes as “options related to the later levels of the demographic transition, which incorporates the simultaneous prevalence of low fertility and low mortality charges, resulting in low or destructive inhabitants progress charges.”
A big issue on this shift is the continued decline within the youngster inhabitants, particularly these aged zero to 14 years. The report pointed to this lower as a part of broader traits affecting the nation’s inhabitants construction.
“This, coupled with web migration loss, beneath alternative stage fertility charges and inhabitants ageing, have negatively impacted the inhabitants construction resulting in a destructive inhabitants progress price,” the ESSJ said.
These demographic adjustments pose essential issues for coverage planning and financial growth as Jamaica navigates this evolving inhabitants panorama.
