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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Ripples from the furious battle for control of the United Kingdom’s fourth-largest food retailer, Safeway, have washed hard against the shores of the eastern Caribbean. Robert Taylor reviews the Carribbean press.
World Press Review - The Jamaica Gleaner reflects on the recent violence in Kingston and what it says about the current state of the nation.
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