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Jamaica 🇯🇲 (North America)

Homicide

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people — lower is better.

49.4(worst)
0.0(best)

Jamaica: 49.4 — 179th of 179

UNODC / WHO estimate of 49.44 homicides per 100,000 population (2023 data).

The highest rate on this list; in the full source dataset only Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands — territories and microstates not listed here — record higher rates.

Source: WHO / UNODC intentional homicide estimates · published 2025

Peace

Global Peace Index score — lower is better.

3.4(worst)
1.1(best)

Jamaica: 2.0 — 71st of 163

Scored 2.047 in the Global Peace Index 2025 — the 93rd most peaceful of 163 countries and territories ranked.

Ranked down 13 places from 2024.

Source: Global Peace Index 2025, Institute for Economics & Peace · published June 2025

Freedom

Human Freedom Index score — higher is better.

3.3(worst)
9.1(best)

Jamaica: 7.8 — 42nd of 164

Democracy

V-Dem classification — higher is better.

CA+(worst)
LD(best)

Jamaica: ED — 41st of 171

LGBT

Equaldex Equality Index — higher is better.

0.0(worst)
9.3(best)

Jamaica: Illegal — 125th of 179

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