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Demographics of Jamaica

The total population of Jamaica is 2,898,677 people. The people of Jamaica speak the Jamaican English language. Jamaica's linguistic diversity is vaguely diverse according to a fractionation scale, which for Jamaica is 0.1098. The average age is around 24.9 years. The life expectancy in Jamaica is 74. The female fertility rate in Jamaica is 2.3. Around 24% of Jamaica's population is obese. Ethnic diversity is diverse according to a fractionation scale, which for Jamaica is 0.4129. Details of the language, religion, age, gender distribution and advancement of the people of Jamaica can be found in the sections below, as well as the section on education in the country.

Population In Jamaica, the population density is 247 people per square kilometer (643 per sq mi). Based on these statistics, this country is considered densely populated. The total population of Jamaica is 2,898,677 people. Jamaica has approximately 23,167 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Jamaica make up 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Immigrants in Jamaica make up 1.3 percent of the total number of immigrants worldwide. Jamaica's ethnic diversity is diverse according to an ethnicity-based fractionation scale. Ethnic Fractionation (EF) deals with the number, size, socioeconomic distribution, and geographic location of diverse cultural groups, usually within a state or some other demarcated area. Specific cultural characteristics can refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. These characteristics are often used for social exclusion and power monopolization. The index of ethnic fractionation in Jamaica is 0.4129. This means that there is some diversity in Jamaica, although all people can still be divided into relatively few major ethnic groups. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group proportions, which reflects the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below for statistics from Jamaica on the mean age and gender distribution at different ages.

Age The average age is around 24.9 years. The average age for men is 24.4 and the average age for women is 25.4.

Gender The sex ratio, or number of males per female (estimated at birth), is 1.05. It can be further broken down into the following categories: sex ratio below 15 - 1.03; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.97; sex ratio over 64 - 0.81; Overall sex ratio - 0.98. The overall sex ratio differs from the sex ratio estimated at birth. This is because some newborns are included in the sex ratio estimated at birth, but die within the first few weeks of life and are not included in the overall sex ratio.

religion The majority religion in Jamaica is Christianity, whose adherents make up 77.2% of all religious believers in the country. Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the largest religion in the world with over 2.4 billion followers known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose coming as Christ or Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament. Besides Christianity, there are several other religions in the country. Other religions in Jamaica are Hinduism, Buddhism. Jamaica's religious diversity is quite diverse according to a fractionation scale based on the number of religions in Jamaica. The index of religious fractionalization in Jamaica is 0.616. This score means there are several major religions evenly distributed in Jamaica.

General development Jamaica is considered a developing country. A nation's stage of development is determined by a number of factors including, but not limited to, economic prosperity, life expectancy, income equality and quality of life. As a developing country, Jamaica may not be able to provide consistent social services to its citizens. These social services can include things like public education, reliable health care, and law enforcement.

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