United KingdomandJamaica

12 July 927 · 6 August 1962

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

United Kingdom

12 July 927 — The monarchs of Britain recognise Æthelstan as king of the English

Dossier →Chronicle →

Jamaica

6 August 1962 — Jamaica becomes independent of Britain

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
39
Domains
9
Crossed events
3
Data through
2026-08-22

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

GBRJAM
  • GDP
    $4.00 T2025$23 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $57,6022025$8,0032025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    1.4%20250.1%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    3.9%20254.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    62.5%2025—
    Observed 2025 / — · figures compared, never graded

Society

GBRJAM
  • Population
    69 m20252.8 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    81.4 yrs202471.6 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    83.3%202559.4%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    1.620241.42024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

GBRJAM

Health

GBRJAM
  • Health spending
    11.1%20247.6%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    3.3020230.462023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    4.7202417.82024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    89.0%202494.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    99.8%2024—
    Observed 2024 / — · figures compared, never graded

Education

GBRJAM

Technology

GBRJAM
  • R&D spending
    2.7%20230.1%2002
    Observed 2023 / 2002 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    4,4732017—
    Observed 2017 / — · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    95.5%202490.1%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    12220241182024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    29.2%20242.6%2023
    Observed 2024 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

GBRJAM
  • Land area
    241,930 km²202310,830 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    13.3%202356.2%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    70.3%202338.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    4.220242.82024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    12.2%202110.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

GBRJAM
  • Resource rents
    0.6%20210.5%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.4%20210.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20210.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.0%20210.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    100.0%202497.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Bauxite
    —6.2 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

GBRJAM
  • Military burden
    2.3%20241.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $82 B2024$263 M2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    153,00020206,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1655 CE

    English conquest

    An English force under Penn and Venables seizes the island for Cromwell, launching the sugar-and-slavery plantation economy.

    War & Rupture · from the Jamaica chronicle · Spanish Colony and English Conquest · REFS 2 — Jamaica: History, Jamaica: British rule

  2. 1944 CE

    Universal adult suffrage

    A new constitution grants every adult the vote, the first in the British Caribbean, and Jamaica holds its first elections under it.

    Politics & Power · from the Jamaica chronicle · Self-Government and Independence · REFS 1 — Jamaica: The independent country

  3. 1958 CE

    West Indies Federation

    Jamaica joins the federation of British Caribbean colonies as its largest member, an experiment in regional union.

    Politics & Power · from the Jamaica chronicle · Self-Government and Independence · REFS 2 — Jamaica: The independent country, The Federal Archives Fonds, 1958-1962 (West Indies Federation)