---
title: "Australia vs Jamaica — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Jamaica is 10,991 km² with 2,837,077. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-jamaica/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Jamaica

**Australia vs Jamaica: Australia is larger; Australia has more people**

7,741,220 km² vs 10,991 km² · 27,614,411 vs 2,837,077

Australia is 704 times larger than Jamaica — 7,741,220 against 10,991 km². Australia is 9.7 times more populous than Jamaica — 27,614,411 against 2,837,077 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Jamaica |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Kingston |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 10,991 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 2,837,077 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 258.1 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Jamaican dollar (JMD) |
| Official languages | English | English |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +1876 |
| Drives on the | left | left |
| Continent | Oceania | North America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | JM / JAM |

## Population density

Jamaica is 72 times more densely populated than Australia — 258 against 4 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Jamaican dollar.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and North America.

## Australia

The sixth-largest country in the world and the only one that covers an entire continent. The Great Barrier Reef runs about 2,300 km and is the largest structure made by living organisms on Earth, visible from orbit. Around eighty percent of its mammals, reptiles and flowering plants exist nowhere else. Melbourne and Sydney are within roughly a hundred thousand people of each other, and which counts as the largest city depends on where the boundary is drawn.

## Jamaica

The Blue Mountains rise to 2,256 m within about 15 km of the coast, so the island is far steeper than its size suggests. Cockpit Country in the west is a karst landscape of conical hills and sinkholes, largely trackless, and holds most of Jamaica's endemic plants. The island is about 235 km long and 82 km at its widest.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Jamaica?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 10,991 km².

### Which has more people, Australia or Jamaica?

Australia, with 27,614,411 against 2,837,077.

### What is the time difference between Australia and Jamaica?

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Jamaica is UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Jamaica](https://atoneplace.net/country/jamaica/)
- [India vs Jamaica](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-jamaica/)
- [China vs Jamaica](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-jamaica/)
- [Canada vs Jamaica](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-jamaica/)
- [Australia vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-states/)
- [Australia vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-india/)
- [Australia vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-china/)
- [Australia vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Australia vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-japan/)
- [Australia vs Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-canada/)
- [Australia vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Australia vs France](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-france/)
- [Australia vs Germany](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-germany/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]