People (Jamaica)
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     Population:
         2,506,701 (July 1992), growth rate 0.9% (1992)
     Birth rate:
         23 births/1,000 population (1992)
     Death rate:
         6 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
     Net migration rate:
         -8 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
     Infant mortality rate:
         18 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
     Life expectancy at birth:
         72 years male, 76 years female (1992)
     Total fertility rate:
         2.5 children born/woman (1992)
     Nationality:
         noun - Jamaican(s); adjective - Jamaican
     Ethnic divisions:
         African 76.3%, Afro-European 15.1%, East Indian and Afro-East Indian 3.0%,
         white 3.2%, Chinese and Afro-Chinese 1.2%, other 1.2%
     Religions:
         predominantly 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 39.1%, including some
         spiritualist cults (1982)
     Languages:
         English, Creole
     Literacy:
         98% (male 98%, female 99%) age 15 and over having ever attended school (1990
         est.)
     Labor force:
         1,062,100; services 41%, agriculture 22.5%, industry 19%; unemployed 17.5%
         (1989)
     Organized labor:
         24% of labor force (1989)