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Jamaica

Caribbean · data available 2000-2019 (20 years)

7.0POP (2019)
#14of 18 countries, 2019
28thpercentile, 2019

Score over time

Figure 1: Jamaica: POP, PEP, and PIP by year

What’s driving the score

Latest-year breakdown of the six Institutional Populism components and four Economic Populism components – see Documentation for what each one measures.

Figure 2: Jamaica: sub-index components, latest year

Jamaica vs. the regional average

Figure 3: Jamaica vs. regional average POP

Governing party by year

The populist rhetoric score (POP_R) is specific to whichever party governed that year – see Documentation for how this is determined.

Year Governing party Populist rhetoric (POP_R)
2019 Jamaica Labour Party 0.30
2018 Jamaica Labour Party 0.30
2017 Jamaica Labour Party 0.30
2016 Jamaica Labour Party 0.30
2015 People's National Party 0.30
2014 People's National Party 0.29
2013 People's National Party 0.28
2012 People's National Party 0.26
2011 Jamaica Labour Party 0.23
2010 Jamaica Labour Party 0.23
2009 Jamaica Labour Party 0.23
2008 Jamaica Labour Party 0.23
2007 People's National Party 0.25
2006 People's National Party 0.25
2005 People's National Party 0.25
2004 People's National Party 0.25
2003 People's National Party 0.25
2002 People's National Party 0.25
2001 People's National Party 0.25
2000 People's National Party 0.25