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Jamaica

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Jamaica is a country. The capital city is Kingston, located in the Caribbean region of Americas. It has a land area of 10,830 km², a population of 2,839,786 people and uses the currency Jamaican dollar. The Prime Minister is Andrew Holness.

Key facts

currency: Jamaican dollar
capital city: Kingston
region: Caribbean
continent: Americas
land area: 10,830 km²
population: 2,839,786 people
political leader: Andrew Holness (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 106.28 % of GDP
expense: 29.83 % of GDP
GDP: 19,423,355,409.23 current US$
inflation: 6.47 annual %
self-employed workers: 37.28 % of total employment
tax revenue: 25.71 % of GDP
unemployment: 4.40 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 33.05 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 6,000 people
democracy score: 7.02
democracy type: Flawed democracy
individuals using the Internet: 83.40 % of population
military expenditure: 1.22 % of GDP
net migration: -10,003 people
press freedom: 7.03
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 28.57 %
birth rate: 11.53 per 1,000 people
death rate: 8.79 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 372.45 current US$
health expenditure: 7.19 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.50 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.68 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 71
suicide mortality rate: 2.40 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 4,170.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.57 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 6.86 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 3.13 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 89.74 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 7.13 % of total
net energy imports: 82.04 % of energy use
fertility rate: 1.34 births per woman
forest area: 6,046 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 80.97 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 8.16 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 27.80
methane emissions: 0.84 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 0.30 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 1,435,044 people
male population: 1,404,742 people
renewable energy consumption: 10.50 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 10,006.16 km²
rural population: 1,210,374 people
urban land area: 1,022.33 km²
urban population: 1,629,412 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 7.33 % of total population

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There are 482 books written about Jamaica in the database.

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