- Jamaica has the second-highest unemployment rate at roughly 11.8 per cent, and fourth-highest poverty rate at 43.1 per cent compared with 23 regional neighbors.
- The official poverty rate in Jamaica is 16.5 percent in 2010.
- Poverty as the share of population earning less than US$2.50 per day which translates to 1.1. million Jamaicans living in poverty.