JAMAICA
People
Population: 2,660, 700 (2005 est.)
Population growth rate: 0.5(2005 est.)
Birth rate: 17.1 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate: 6.0 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate: -17.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 19.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.3 years (2005 est.)
Total fertility rate: 2.5 children born/woman (2005 est.)
Ethnic groups: black 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:
definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
total population: 85%
male: 80.8%
female: 89.1% (1995 est.)
