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Jamaica People 1999
Population: 2,652,443 (July 1999 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 0.64% (1999 est.) Birth rate: 20.22 births/1,000 population (1999 est.) Death rate: 5.39 deaths/1,000 population (1999 est.) Net migration rate: -8.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1999 est.)
Sex ratio:
Infant mortality rate: 13.93 deaths/1,000 live births (1999 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 2.26 children born/woman (1999 est.)
Nationality:
Ethnic groups: black 90.4%, East Indian 1.3%, white 0.2%, Chinese 0.2%, mixed 7.3%, other 0.6% Religions: Protestant 61.3% (Church of God 21.2%, Baptist 8.8%, Anglican 5.5%, Seventh-Day Adventist 9%, Pentecostal 7.6%, Methodist 2.7%, United Church 2.7%, Brethren 1.1%, Jehovah's Witness 1.6%, Moravian 1.1%), Roman Catholic 4%, other, including some spiritual cults 34.7% Languages: English, Creole
Literacy:
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