Jamaica

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PROFILE
  • Area: 10,991 sq. km (4,244 sq. mi.)
  • Population: 2,970,340 (2016 est.)
  • Population growth rate: 0.68% (2016 est.)
  • Life expectancy: 73.6 years (2016)
  • Languages: English, English patois
  • Religions: Protestant 64.8% (includes Church of God 14%, Seventh Day Adventist 12.0%, Pentecostal 11.0%, New Testament Church of God 7.2%), Roman Catholic 2.2%, Jehovah's Witness 1.9%, Rastafarian 1.1%, other 6.5%, none 21.3%, unspecified 2.3%
  • Government type: parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
  • Leaders: chief of state: Queen ELIZABETH II; head of government: Prime Minister Andrew HOLNESS
  • Capital: Kingston
  • Administrative divisions: 14 parishes
  • GDP per capita (PPP): $8,800 (2015 est.)
  • Exports: alumina, bauxite, sugar, rum, coffee, yams, beverages, chemicals, apparel, mineral fuels
  • Imports: food and other consumer goods, industrial supplies, fuel, parts and accessories of capital goods, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials
  • Currency: Jamaican dollar (JMD)
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