All 195 countries · Caribbean
Jamaica
Jamaica has a live retail CBDC, and its national ID system (NIDS) moved from pilot to national rollout in 2026. Privacy and trust concerns persist, according to press.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Jamaica
- Program
- National Identification System (NIDS)
- Status
- Being built or piloted
- National ID card
- ID card voluntary
- Biometrics
- Yes
The 2026-27 budget set aside J$1.86 billion for NIDS implementation, per the government information service. Press coverage in July 2026 reported privacy and public-trust concerns. Our tool could not open the Gleaner article, so detail is limited.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Launched
- Name
- JAM-DEX
The Atlantic Council tracker lists Jamaica as fully launched, with a focus on expanding reach despite slow adoption.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2019Pushback
Constitutional Court struck down the NIDS Act as unconstitutional, halting compulsory biometric enrolment. web4.jamaica-gleaner.com ↗
UN and WHO
How Jamaica has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- Abstained
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 69.3 · rank 84 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Sovereignty score
How the 0 adds up
- +1Abstained on the WHO Pandemic Agreement (May 2025) source ↗
- +1Scrapped or court-blocked a national digital ID (since 2015) source ↗
- -2Launched a CBDC to the public source ↗
Points come only from public, sourced actions we track, scored the same way for every country. It isn't a grade of a whole government. How scoring works →
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