Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Jamaica instead of Montserrat, you would:
Economy
make 74.4% less money
Montserrat has a GDP per capita of $34,000 as of 2011, while in Jamaica, the GDP per capita is $8,700 as of 2020.
be 37.9% more likely to be unemployed
In Montserrat, 5.6% of adults are unemployed as of 2017. In Jamaica, that number is 7.7% as of 2019.
Life
have 46.0% more children
In Montserrat, there are approximately 10.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022. In Jamaica, there are 15.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2022.
Expenditures
spend 40.7% less on education
Montserrat spends 9.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2019. Jamaica spends 5.4% of total GDP on education as of 2020.
Geography
see 25.6 times more coastline
Montserrat has a total of 40 km of coastline. In Jamaica, that number is 1,022 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Jamaica: At a glance
How big is Jamaica compared to Montserrat? See an in-depth size comparison.