Jamaica
General information
Capital: Kingston
Currency unit: Jamaican dollar
Area: 10,990 km²
Total population: 2,839,180
GDP (millions of US dollars): 22,014
GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 12,890
Production
Agriculture (% of GDP): 11.1 %
Manufacture (% of GDP): 8.8 %
Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 11.9 %
Services (% of GDP): 68.2 %
Trade
Total exports (millions of US dollars): 7,124
Total imports (millions of US dollars): 9,524
Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Aluminium ores and concentrates (incl. alumina) (35.3 %)
Alcoholic beverages (12.4 %)
Fruit, preserved, and fruit preparations (no juice) (5.5 %)
Edible products and preparations (5.2 %)
Petroleum oils or bituminous minerals (5.0 %)
Revealed Competitiveness
This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.
| Jamaica | ||
|---|---|---|
| Revealed Competitiveness | - | |
| Global Market Share Jamaica: 0 | 0 | |
| Revealed Competitiveness Index Jamaica: 4 | 4 |