Jamaica 
Facts
Population: 2,780,132 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 32.5% (male 459,968/female 444,963)
15-64 years: 60.1% (male 822,486/female 848,310)
65 years and over: 7.4% (male 91,856/female 112,549) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.777% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 20.44 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.59 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -6.07 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.034 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.816 male(s)/female
total population: 0.978 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 15.73 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 16.4 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 15.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.12 years
male: 71.43 years
female: 74.9 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.36 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.2% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 22,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 900 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Jamaican(s)
adjective: Jamaican.
Ethnic groups: black 91.2%, mixed 6.2%, other or unknown 2.6% (2001 census).
Religions: Protestant 62.5% (Seventh-Day Adventist 10.8%, Pentecostal 9.5%, Other Church of God 8.3%, Baptist 7.2%, New Testament Church of God 6.3%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.3%, Anglican 3.6%, other Christian 7.7%), Roman Catholic 2.6%, other or unspecified 14.2%, none 20.9%, (2001 census).
Languages: English, English patois.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school
total population: 87.9%
male: 84.1%
female: 91.6% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $12.82 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 2.3% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 5.2%
industry: 27.3%
services: 67.5% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 1.1 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 18.1%
industry: 17.3%
services: 64.6% (2004).
Population below poverty line: 14.8% (2003 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.4%
highest 10%: 30.3% (2000).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.8% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 11.3% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $2.85 billion
expenditures: $3.174 billion; including capital expenditures of $180.4 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, yams, ackees, vegetables; poultry, goats, milk; crustaceans, mollusks.
Industries: tourism, bauxite/alumina, agro processing, light manufactures, rum, cement, metal, paper, chemical products, telecommunications.
Industrial production growth rate: -2% (2000 est.).
Electricity - production: 6.913 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 6.429 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $2.087 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: alumina, bauxite, sugar, bananas, rum, coffee, yams, beverages, chemicals, wearing apparel, mineral fuels.
Exports - partners: US 25.8%, Canada 19.3%, UK 10.7%, Netherlands 8.6%, China 7%, Norway 6.4%, Germany 5.6% (2005).
Imports: $4.682 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: food and other consumer goods, industrial supplies, fuel, parts and accessories of capital goods, machinery and transport equipment, construction materials.
Imports - partners: US 41.4%, Trinidad and Tobago 14%, Venezuela 5.5%, Japan 4.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $7.384 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $254.7 million (2004).
Currency (code): Jamaican dollar (JMD).
Exchange rates: Jamaican dollars per US dollar - 65.768 (2006), 62.51 (2005), 61.197 (2004), 57.741 (2003), 48.416 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
(Privately-owned, Independent), Kingston
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/
(Privately-owned, Independent), Kingston
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/
Jamaica Record, The
(Independent), Kingston
Sunday Gleaner, The
(Centrist), Kingston
Jamaica in the News
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The decades-long mining of Jamaica’s bauxite, an essential component of aluminum, has ecologically ravaged a tropical paradise.
Countries around the world have taken preventive measures against a potential outbreak of bird flu, which has killed more than 60 people in Southeast Asia since it was first discovered in 2003.
The Jamaica Gleaner endorses the Caribbean Community's call for a U.N.-led investigation into the circumstances under which Jean-Bertrand Aristide relinquished the presidency of Haiti.
'There is a Caribbean ambivalence toward Haiti which this newspaper finds unfortunate and, frankly, distasteful,' an unsigned editorial from the Jamaica Gleaner begins.
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