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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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Jamaica is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Caribbean and 194 countries in our database.

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Distribution of diseases in Jamaica by start date

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Correlation of population and date by countries yearly in Jamaica

Correlation of birth rate and life expectancy at birth of countries yearly in Jamaica

Correlation of mean length and mean width of wildfires by wildfire in Jamaica

Correlation of forest area and rural land area by countries yearly in Jamaica

In literature

There are 482 books written about Jamaica in the database.

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