Population: 2,555,064 (July 1994 est.)

Population growth rate: 1.02% (1994 est.)

Birth rate: 21.69 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Death rate: 5.62 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Net migration rate: -5.9 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 16.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.36 years
male: 72.16 years
female: 76.68 years (1994 est.)

Total fertility rate: 2.41 children born/woman (1994 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Jamaican(s)
adjective: Jamaican

Ethnic divisions: African 76.3%, Afro-European 15.1%, East Indian and Afro-East Indian 3%, white 3.2%, Chinese and Afro-Chinese 1.2%, other 1.2%

Religions: Protestant 55.9% (Church of God 18.4%, Baptist 10%, Anglican 7.1%, Seventh-Day Adventist 6.9%, Pentecostal 5.2%, Methodist 3.1%, United Church 2.7%, other 2.5%), Roman Catholic 5%, other, including some spiritual cults 39.1% (1982)

Languages: English, Creole

Literacy: age 15 and over having ever attended school (1990 est.)
total population: 98%
male: 98%
female: 99%
Labor force: 1,062,100
by occupation: services 41%, agriculture 22.5%, industry 19%, unemployed 17.5% (1989)

NOTE: The information regarding Jamaica on this page is re-published from the 1995 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Jamaica People 1995 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Jamaica People 1995 should be addressed to the CIA.