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4.4 million2,683,707 (2011 census)Jamaica}}{{UN_Population|ref}}| region1 = United States| pop1 = 1,100,000+PUBLISHER=UNITED STATES CENSUS ARCHIVE-DATE=2020-02-12 URL-STATUS=DEAD, | region2 = United Kingdom| pop2 = 800,000+DATE=15 JANUARY 2015 ACCESS-DATE=20 DECEMBER 2015 ARCHIVE-URL=HTTPS://WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG/WEB/20190501120652/HTTPS://WWW.IOM.INT/WORLD-MIGRATION, dead, | region3 = Canada| pop3 = 309,485URL=HTTPS://WWW12.STATCAN.GC.CA/CENSUS-RECENSEMENT/2016/DP-PD/PROF/DETAILS/PAGE.CFM?LANG=E&GEO1=PR&CODE1=01&GEO2=PR&CODE2=01&DATA=COUNT&SEARCHTEXT=CANADA&SEARCHTYPE=BEGINS&SEARCHPR=01&B1=ETHNIC%20ORIGIN&TABID=1, 2020-04-24, | region4 = Costa Rica| pop4 = 64,000+| ref4 = | region5 = Cayman Islands| pop5 = 21,888| ref5 = HTTPS://WWW.ESO.KY/USERFILES/PAGE_DOCUMS/FILES/UPLOADS/THE_CAYMAN_ISLANDS_LABOUR_FORCE_SURVEY_R-14.PDF >TITLE= LABOUR FORCE SURVEY SPRING 2022, | region6 = Trinidad and Tobago| pop6 = 15,000| ref6 = | region7 = Antigua and Barbuda| pop7 = 12,000| ref7 = | region8 = The Bahamas| pop8 = 5,572WEBSITE=THE NASSAU GUARDIAN, | region9 = Germany| pop9 = 4,000ACCESS-DATE=2023-10-31, | region10 = The Netherlands| pop10 = 1,971| ref10 = Bevolking; herkomstgroepering, generatie, geslacht en leeftijd, 1 januari, CBS, geraadpleegd op 5 juli 2014, 20 oktober 2018 en 9 februari 2020, 24 mei 2020.| region11 = Australia| pop11 = 1,092| ref11 = | region12 = Japan| pop12 = 945LANGUAGE=JA ACCESS-DATE=28 APRIL 2024, Jamaican English>English, Jamaican Patois| rels = Primarily Protestantism"Jamaica - Religion", Encyclopædia Britannica online.}}Jamaicans are the citizens of Jamaica and their descendants in the Jamaican diaspora. The vast majority of Jamaicans are of Sub-Saharan African descent, with minorities of Europeans, Indians, Chinese, Middle Eastern, and others of mixed ancestry. The bulk of the Jamaican diaspora resides in other Anglophone countries, namely Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Jamaican populations are also prominent in other Caribbean countries, territories and Commonwealth realms, where in the Cayman Islands, born Jamaicans, as well as Caymanians of Jamaican origin, make up 26.8% of the population.WEB,weblink Demographic Characteristics, Outside of Anglophone countries, the largest Jamaican diaspora community lives in Costa Rica, where Jamaicans make up a significant percentage of the population.WEB,weblink The Story Behind Jamaicans in Costa Rica,

History

According to the official Jamaica Population Census of 1970, ethnic origins categories in Jamaica include: Black (Mixed); Chinese; East Indian; White; and 'Other' (e.g.: Syrian or Lebanese).Jamaicans of African descent made up 92% of the working population. Those of non-African descent or mixed race made up the remaining 8% of the population.BOOK, Jamaica Population Census 1970,

Self-identified ethnic origin

Responses of the 2011 official census.{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left"! colspan="2"| Ethnic origin! Population! Males! Females! Percentage Afro-Jamaican >| 92.1 Chinese Jamaican>| 0.2 Mixed162,71873,293 89,425 6.0 Indo-Jamaicans >|0.7 White Jamaican>|0.2 Other 1,898 970 9280.1 Not Reported17,486 8,6388,848 0.6!colspan="2"| Total||2,683,707|| 1,324,490|| 1,359,217|| 100.0%source

Religion

{| class="wikitable"! rowspan=2 | Denomination !! colspan=2| 2011 censusWEB,weblink 2011 Census of Population by Sex and Religious Affiliation/Denomination by Parish (P. 80), issuu.com, April 12, 2020, ! Number !! Percentage align=right '''Christianity in Jamaica > >| ''' align=right     Anglicanism 74,891 align=right     Baptists 180,640 align=right     Brethren (religious group) >| align=right     Baptists 20,872 - align=right     Brethren (religious group) >| 1.0 align=right     Church of God in Jamaica 129,544 - align=right     Church of God of Prophecy 121,400 - align=right     New Testament Church of God 192,086 - align=right     Other Church of God 246,838 -The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints>The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (2021)STATISTICS AND CHURCH FACTS {{!, Total Church Membership >url=http://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/facts-and-statistics/country/jamaica website=newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org |language=en}}6,718- align=right     Jehovah's Witnesses 50,849 2.0 align=right     Methodism >| 2.0 align=right     Moravian Church >| align=right     Pentecostalism >| align=right     Rastafari 29,026 align=right     Revivalist (person) >| align=right     Roman Catholic Church >| align=right     Seventh-day Adventist Church >| - align=right     United and uniting churches >| align=right '''Baháʼí Faith in Jamaica''' >| align=right Hinduism 1,836 - align=right Islam 1,513 - align=right '''History of the Jews in Jamaica'''>| align=rightOther Religion/Denomination 169,014 - align=right Totals, specified religions align=center > 100.00 align=right No Religion/Denomination 572,008 - align=right Not reported 60,326 -! Totals, Jamaica||2,683,105 || 100.00

Diaspora

Many Jamaicans now live overseas and outside Jamaica, while many have migrated to Anglophone countries, including over 400,000 Jamaicans in the United Kingdom, over 300,000 in Canada and 1,100,000 in the United States.WEB,weblink Jamaica: From Diverse Beginning to Diaspora in the Developed World, There are about 30,500 Jamaicans residing in other CARICOM member including the Bahamas, Cuba, Antigua & Barbuda (12,000),WEB,weblink PM Golding Calls on Jamaicans in Antigua & Barbuda to Co-Operate with Government & People There, Jamaica Information Service, 2021-05-14, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago.WEB,weblink 30,000 Jamaicans residing in other CARICOM member states, caricomnews.net, 2014-04-24,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170620140951weblink">weblink 2017-06-20, dead, There are also communities of Jamaican descendants in Central America, particularly Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Most of Costa Rica's Afro-Costa Rican and Mulatto population, which combined represents about 7% of the total population, is of Jamaican descent.NEWS, Schulman, Bob, 'Little Jamaica' Rocks on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica,weblink Huffington Post, 22 January 2019, JOURNAL, Koch, Charles W., Jamaican Blacks and Their Descendants in Costa Rica, Social and Economic Studies, 26, 3, 339–361, Jamaica, Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies, 27861669, 1977,

Notable Jamaicans

See also

• Afro-Nicaraguan
• Afro-Panamanian
• Demographics of Jamaica
• Jamaicans in Ethiopia

References

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