People of Jamaica

source: CIA World Fact Book 1997

Population: 2,615,582 (July 1997 est.)

• 0-14 years : 32% (male 428,831; female 409,959)
• 15-64 years: 61% (male 793,609; female 806,031)
• 65 years and over: 7% (male 78,453; female 98,699) (July 1997 est.)

Population growth rate: 0.75% (1997 est.)

Birth rate: 21.56 births/1,000 population (1997 est.)

Death rate: 5.5 deaths/1,000 population (1997 est.)

Net migration rate: -8.51 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1997 est.)

• at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
• under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
• 15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 0.8 male(s)/female
• total population: 0.99 male(s)/female (1997 est.)

Infant mortality rate: 15 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.)

• total population: 75.12 years
• male : 72.8 years
• female: 77.56 years (1997 est.)

Total fertility rate: 2.39 children born/woman (1997 est.)

• noun : Jamaican(s)
• adjective: Jamaican

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

• definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
• total population: 85%
• male: 80.8%
• female: 89.1% (1995 est.)