Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) in Jamaica
Jamaica: Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2019. ▬ Flat
Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) in Jamaica, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank. Measured in DB16-20 methodology.
Analysis
In 2019, getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in Jamaica stood at 5 DB16-20 methodology. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
That places Jamaica 5th out of 136 countries with data for 2019, putting it in the top 10%.
Countries ranked near Jamaica
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More private sector data for Jamaica
- Merchandise trade 41.3% (2025)
- Food imports 20.5% (2023)
- Manufactures imports 51.4% (2023)
- Merchandise imports 7.68 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 30.4% (2023)
- Manufactures exports 3.0% (2023)
- Merchandise exports 1.69 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 595.33 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.0744 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate -9.53 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in Jamaica?
- Getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) in Jamaica was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) recorded in Jamaica?
- The highest recorded value was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2014.
- What is the lowest getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) recorded in Jamaica?
- The lowest recorded value was 5 DB16-20 methodology in 2014.
- How does Jamaica rank for getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes)?
- Jamaica ranks 5th out of 136 countries with data for 2019.
- Is getting electricity: minimum outage time (in minutes) rising or falling in Jamaica?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Jamaica data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Getting electricity: Minimum outage time (in minutes) (DB16-20 methodology). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The minimum outage time is the minimum time, in minutes, considered for the calculation of the SAIDI and SAIFI indices. If the minimum outage time exceeds 5 minutes, an economy is not eligible to obtain a score on the Reliability of supply and transparency of tariff index component. The index is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.