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Capital: Kingston
Total Area: 4,243.26 sq mi,10,990.00 sq km,(slightly smaller than Connecticut)
Population: 2,665,636 (July 2001 est.)
Estimated Population in 2050: 3,505,286
Languages: English, Creole
Literacy: 85.0% total, 80.8% male, 89.1% female (1995 est.)
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%
Life Expectancy: 73.45 male, 77.49 female (2001 est.)
Government Type: constitutional parliamentary democracy
Currency: 1 Jamaican dollar (J$) = 100 cents
GDP (per capita): $3,700 (2000 est.)
Industry: tourism, bauxite, textiles, food processing, light manufactures, rum, cement, metal, paper, chemical products
Agriculture: sugarcane, bananas, coffee, citrus, potatoes, vegetables; poultry, goats, milk
Arable Land: 14%
Natural Resources: bauxite, gypsum, limestone
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