Jamaica
island state in the Caribbean Sea
Facts
92 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- Commonwealth realm, territorial evolution of the British Empire, island country, country, sovereign state, archipelagic state[18][19][20][21]
- Inception
- 1962
- Official website
- www.gov.jm
- Native label
- Jamaica, Xaymaca, Yamaye, Jumieka
- Official name
- Jamaica, Jamaïque, Jumieka
Location
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 18.180°, -77.400°
- Continent
- North America[17]
- Located in or next to body of water
- Caribbean Sea[15]
- Shares border with
- United Kingdom[27]
Population and size
- Area
- +10991.90954
- Female population
- +1363450
- Highest point
- Blue Mountain Peak
- Male population
- +1334533
- Population
- 2.7M (2.7M–3.0M, n=4)⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 2,950,210 · 2,890,299 · 2,697,983 · 2,734,093 GeoNames 2,934,855 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +76
- Follows
- West Indies Federation[33]
- Age of majority
- +18
- BTI Governance Index
- 5.79 (5.65–5.99, n=7)
- BTI Status Index
- 7.19 (7.1–7.65, n=9)
- Birth rate
- 11.5 (11.5–12, n=4)
- Central bank
- Bank of Jamaica
- Coat of arms
- coat of arms of Jamaica[37]
- Coextensive with
- Jamaica
- Commonwealth Sport country code
- JAM
- Compulsory education (maximum age)
- +16
- Compulsory education (minimum age)
- +5
- Contains the administrative territorial entity
- Cornwall County, Middlesex County, Surrey County[30][31][32]
- Coordinates of easternmost point
- 🗺️ 17.915°, -76.188°
- Coordinates of geographic center
- 🗺️ 18.110°, -77.297°
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 🗺️ 18.525°, -77.847°
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 🗺️ 17.706°, -77.167°
- Coordinates of westernmost point
- 🗺️ 18.269°, -78.369°
- Culture
- culture of Jamaica
- Death rate
- 8.79 (7.48–8.8, n=4)
- Democracy Index
- 7.13 (6.96–7.29, n=4)
- Demographics of topic
- demographics of Jamaica
- Demonym
- Jamaikaner, Jamaican, Jamaikanerin, jamaicai, Jumiekan, jamaicano, Jamaikano, Camekeänan, جمايكي, جمايكية, جمايكيون, ג'מייקני, ג'מייקנית, jamaicani, jamaican, jamaicană, জামাইকীয়, giamaicano, giamaicana, giamaicani, giamaicane, jamaican, xamaicanu, xamaicana, xamaicano, Jamaïcaine, Jamaïquain, Jamaïcain, Jamaïquaine, zamaegana, zamaegane, zamaegani, zamaegan, Hamaykanhën, Hamaykanhon, Hamaikínu, Hamaykino, جامايكي, جامايكية, جامايكيين, جامايكيات, Jamajčan, Jamajčanka, Iamácach
- Described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work
- Different from
- Jamaica
- Diplomatic relation
- Brazil, Australia, Chile, Spain, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, Ghana, Malaysia, Taiwan, Mexico, United States, People's Republic of China, India, Georgia, Germany, North Korea[43][44][45]
- Driving side
- left
- Economy of topic
- economy of Jamaica
- Executive body
- Cabinet of Jamaica[36]
- Geography of topic
- Geography of Jamaica
- Geoshape
- 🗺️ View shape: Jamaica
- Gini coefficient
- +45.5
- Happy Planet Index score
- +57.9
- Has characteristic
- free country
- Hashtag
- Jamaica
- Head of government
- Andrew Holness[16]
- Head of state
- Charles III, Elizabeth II[22]
- History of topic
- history of Jamaica
- Human Development Index
- 0.71 (0.66–0.72, n=32)
- Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index
- 0.59 (0.59–0.6, n=11)
- Language used
- English, English, Jamaican Patois, Jamaican English, Jamaican Sign Language, Jamaican Country Sign Language
- Legislative body
- Parliament of Jamaica[35]
- Licence plate code
- JA[38]
- Life expectancy
- 71 (70–76, n=22)
- Literacy rate
- +87
- Lowest point
- Caribbean Sea
- Mains voltage
- +116
- Maritime identification digits
- 339
- Marriageable age
- +18
- Member of
- United Nations, Commonwealth of Nations, World Trade Organization, Caribbean Community, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corporation, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, United Nations–African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Alliance of Small Island States, Caribbean Development Bank, Interpol, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, International Hydrographic Organization, UNESCO, Universal Postal Union, International Telecommunication Union, Organization of American States, World Meteorological Organization, World Health Organization, Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, World Customs Organization, Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]
- Motto text
- Out of Many, One People, От множеството - един народ, Get All Right, Allan o lawer, un bobl
- Nominal GDP
- +14657586359, +17097760745
- Number of out-of-school children
- 77k (59k–77k, n=6)
- Office held by head of government
- Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Office held by head of state
- monarch of Jamaica, Governor-General of Jamaica
- Official language
- English, Jamaican Patois[24][25]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject African diaspora, Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Open data portal
- Jamaica's Open Data Catalog
- P14470
- Locations/Jamaica
- P14968
- January 1
- Permanent duplicated item
- Wikidata item
- Replaces
- Colony of Jamaica
- Rural population
- 1.2M (1.2M–1.2M, n=4)
- Telephone country code
- +1876[41]
- Total fertility rate
- 2.05 (2.05–2.62, n=16)
- Unemployment rate
- +13
- Unicode character
- 🇯🇲[42]
- Urban population
- 1.6M (1.6M–1.6M, n=4)
- VAT rate
- +12.5
🏷️ Also known as
en Jamaica
en Commonwealth of Jamaica
en JA
ar جامايكي
ar جاميكا
ar جمايكا
ar جامايكا
cs Jamajka
de Jamaika
de JA
el Τζαμάικα
fa جامائیکا
fr Jamaique
fr Jamaïque
fr la Jamaïque
he ג'מייקה
hi जमैका
hi जमैका राष्ट्रमंडल
it Giamaica
ja ジャマイカ
🔖 Identifiers · 156
- VIAF cluster ID
- 126584662
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n81008540
- GND ID
- 4028456-6
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
- 294918256
- AllTrails trail ID
- jamaica
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID
- 9927
- ArchINFORM location ID
- 2997
- BAnQ authority ID
- 0000060159
- BBC News topic ID
- c50znx8v848t
- BBC Things ID
- d11afe35-9d63-4238-af22-91d33a695f27
- BabelNet ID
- 00047903n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 119.5M (115.8M–153.0M, n=3)
Show all 156 identifiers +144
- Biblissima authority ID
- Frio County
- Booru tag
- jamaica
- British Museum place ID
- x40714
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
- jamaika
- CIVICUS Monitor country entry
- jamaica
- Canadiana Authorities ID (former scheme)
- 0000G8366F
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf10031041
- Catholic Encyclopedia ID
- 08270a
- Colon Classification
- SG--7926
- Comic Vine ID
- 4020-56026
- Curlie ID
- Regional/Caribbean/Jamaica/
- DBNL country ID
- jamai01
- DR topic ID
- jamaica
- Data Commons ID
- country/JAM
- DeCS ID
- 7732
- Dewey Decimal Classification
- 2--7292
- EU Knowledge Graph item ID
- Lesotho
- Early Modern Letters Online location ID
- 7486fe6d-093f-4e5c-bd3e-01aa49463632
- Edition humboldt digital ID
- H0006552
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
- 205162
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
- E0047908
- Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists ID
- DC3C
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- place/Jamaica
- Encyclopædia Universalis ID
- jamaique
- Eska.pl topic ID
- tg-1CmR-FpBk-znUc
- EuroVoc ID
- 1522
- FAST ID
- 1211575
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
- JM
- Facebook username
- ジャマイカ政府観光局-160549250671605
- FactGrid item ID
- toccata
- Fandom article ID
- you:Jamaica, countries:Jamaica
- Filozofia jezuitów w Polsce w XX wieku ID
- jamajka
- France 24 topic ID (French)
- jamaïque
- Freebase ID
- /m/03_r3
- GACS ID
- 1
- GADM ID
- JAM
- GENC 3-character code
- JAM
- GeoNLP ID (obsolete)
- PIUQlE
- GeoNames ID
- 3489940
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
- 7005556
- GitHub topic
- jamaica
- Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
- Jamaica
- Golden ID
- Jamaica-VB59
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
- jamaica
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
- 0034291
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
- Jamaica
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
- 4926106
- Grove Art Online ID
- T043285
- HDS ID
- 003387
- Harper's tag
- jamaica
- Historical Gazetteer (GOV) ID
- object_1285961
- IAB code
- 1327
- IMDb keyword
- jamaica
- INSEE countries and foreign territories code
- 99426
- INaturalist place ID
- 8748
- IOC country code
- JAM
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code
- JM
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code
- JAM
- ISO 3166-1 numeric code
- 388
- ITU letter code
- JMC
- ITU/ISO/IEC object ID
- 2.16.388
- Interlingual Index ID
- i82889
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID
- 8506
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)
- 15217
- KBpedia ID
- Jamaica
- Klexikon article ID
- Jamaika
- Krugosvet article (archived)
- strany_mira/YAMAKA.html
- KulturNav-ID
- 3c15ac56-d763-4092-9187-daac95f1e213
- LC and MARC vocabularies ID
- countries/jm, geographicAreas/nwjm
- Le Figaro tag ID
- Jamaïque
- Le Monde diplomatique subject ID
- pays/jamaique
- Lex ID
- Jamaica
- Libris-URI
- xv8b9zdg44wwt0m
- M49 code
- 388
- Mapy.com ID
- osm&id=388
- MeSH descriptor ID
- D007563
- MeSH tree code
- Z01.107.084.900.525, Z01.639.880.525
- Museum-digital place ID
- 22075
- MusicBrainz area ID
- 2dd47a64-91d5-3b13-bc94-80043ed063d7
- NDL Authority ID
- 00574977
- NE.se ID
- jamaica
- NL CR AUT ID
- ge129416
- NRK topic ID
- 1.7140389
- Namuwiki ID
- 자메이카
- National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
- geo/4F4A5540-86D0-4FA6-A495-22681E243DFF
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 000982956
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007548026505171
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
- XX451826
- National Library of Wales Authority ID
- jamaica-2
- New York Post topic ID
- jamaica
- New York Times topic ID
- destination/jamaica
- NicoNicoPedia ID
- ジャマイカ
- OBO Gazetteer ID
- 00251084
- OHDSI ID
- 4072762
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
- 7962
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID
- 4169060
- OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
- 2801346
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 555017
- Our Campaigns container ID
- 6452
- PM20 geo code
- E28
- Postimees topic ID
- 20104
- Quora topic ID
- Jamaica
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A000093235
- RKD thesaurus ID
- 7807
- SELIBR ID
- 149354
- SNARC ID
- livermorium
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
- 17785-2
- SVKKL authority ID
- 0250235-Jamajka
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID
- 5213
- Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
- geografico/1114859
- Statoids ID
- ujm
- Subreddit
- Jamaica
- TasteAtlas ID
- jamaica
- TermCymru ID
- 169500642
- The Guardian topic ID
- world/jamaica
- The New Yorker topic ID
- jamaica
- The Top Tens ID
- 128
- The World Factbook country ID (archived)
- jamaica
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Jamaica
- Topic's main category
- Category:Jamaica
- Treccani's Dizionario di Storia ID
- giamaica
- U.S. National Archives Identifier
- 10044630
- UK Parliament ID
- Xln11qE4
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID
- 11082
- UNDP country code
- JAM
- UNESCO Thesaurus ID
- concept785
- UVL group ID
- jamaica
- Urban Electric Transit country ID
- 84
- Vikidia article ID
- es:Jamaica, ca:Jamaica, fr:Jamaïque
- WIPO ST.3
- JM
- Who's on First ID
- 85632215
- WikiKids ID
- Jamaica
- Wikisimpsons article ID
- 48494
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
- 08771766-n
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions ID
- JAM
- World Historical Gazetteer place ID
- 12346672
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJgMFVHwFVBfgHmXtgptrq
- YSA ID
- Y107112
- YSO ID
- 107112
- Yale LUX ID
- place/349059e2-4796-4153-b953-8956cbee6138
- Yle topic ID
- 18-176097
- Zhihu topic ID
- 19880790
🔗 Connections
Citizens 1088
← Category combines topics 581
← Country for sport 506
Things located in country 491
People born here 157
← Country of origin 75
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+67 more
← Applies to jurisdiction 48
← Narrative location 31
Member of 25
Contained subdivisions 19
← Diplomatic relation 18
United States,
Germany,
India,
Mexico,
People's Republic of China,
Australia,
Canada,
Spain
+10 more
Diplomatic relation 17
People who died here 17
← Ratified by 17
Kyoto Protocol,
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works,
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property,
Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage,
Apostille Convention,
World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty
+9 more
Located in this place 10
← Facet of 7
← Work location 7
Instance of 6
← Endemic to 6
← Filming location 6
← Location of formation 6
← Place of publication 6
Residents 5
Language used 4
← Headquarters location 4
← Signatory 4
← Taxon range 4
Belongs to 3
Contains the administrative territorial entity 3
Currency 3
Described by source 3
← Invasive to 3
Anthem 2
Has these parts 2
Head of state 2
Official language 2
← Basin country 2
← Indigenous to 2
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Category for films shot at this location 1
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Category of associated people 1
Central bank 1
Coat of arms 1
Coextensive with 1
Continent 1
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Culture 1
Demographics of topic 1
Driving side 1
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Economy of topic 1
FactGrid item ID 1
Flag 1
Follows 1
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Has characteristic 1
Head of government 1
Highest point 1
History of topic 1
Legislative body 1
Located in or next to body of water 1
Located in time zone 1
Lowest point 1
Named after 1
Office held by head of government 1
Office held by head of state 1
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
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Preceded by (successor) 1
Replaces 1
SNARC ID 1
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Top-level Internet domain 1
Topic's main Wikimedia portal 1
Topic's main category 1
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← Category's main topic 1
← Coach of sports team 1
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← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
← Holds diplomatic passport of 1
← Main subject 1
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← Official residence 1
← Operator 1
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← Replaced by 1
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World Factbook
CIA reference data · 4 sections
Geography
Location
Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba
Climate
tropical; hot, humid; temperate interior
Terrain
mostly mountains, with narrow, discontinuous coastal plain
Natural resources
bauxite, alumina, gypsum, limestone
People & Society
Languages
English, Jamaican patois
Religions
Protestant 64.8% (includes Seventh Day Adventist 12.0%, Pentecostal 11.0%, Other Church of God 9.2%, New Testament Church of God 7.2%, Baptist 6.7%, Church of God in Jamaica 4.8%, Church of God of Prophecy 4.5%, Anglican 2.8%, United Church 2.1%, Methodist 1.6%, Revived 1.4%, Brethren 0.9%, and Moravian 0.7%), Roman Catholic 2.2%, Jehovah's Witness 1.9%, Rastafarian 1.1%, other 6.5%, none 21.3%, unspecified 2.3% (2011 est.)
Government
Government type
parliamentary democracy (Parliament) under a constitutional monarchy; a Commonwealth realm
Independence
6 August 1962 (from the UK)
National holiday
Independence Day, 6 August (1962)
Legal system
common law system based on the English model
Economy
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
$29.13 billion (2024 est.)
Real GDP per capita
$10,300 (2024 est.)
Real GDP growth rate
-0.7% (2024 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices)
5.4% (2024 est.)
Unemployment rate
4.9% (2024 est.)
Exports - partners
USA 37%, Russia 7%, Latvia 7%, Iceland 7%, UK 5% (2023)
Imports - partners
USA 39%, China 11%, Brazil 4%, Colombia 4%, Japan 4% (2023)
Source: CIA World Factbook · public domain (US gov work, 17 USC §105) · fetched 2026-05-06
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for Jamaica include Jamaicans[46], a human population[47].
Why It Matters
Entities named for Jamaica include Jamaicans[46], a human population[47].
🛰️ Living Edge
· news-derived, source-cited
high ≥ 0.90 · emerging ≥ 0.65 · low below — calibrated against hand-rated truth (single-source .44 · two-source .62 · production-typical .70), so a band is a measurement, not a promise. High is rare by design: it needs both a supported assertion and an evidence sentence. A confirmed or contradicted chip is a Wikidata cross-check; no chip means Wikidata has no value for that property — the ordinary case here, and it says nothing either way. A confirm-only note marks a property whose check can never disagree (Wikidata's border and capital data is not exhaustive), so silence there is a limit of the check, not of the claim.
served-tier precision 80.7% [76.2, 84.5] · rated rows currently served n=342 · entailment-gated at 0.85 · measured 2026-09-29 · re-scored every 10 min, demoted at the half-hourly fold
Member of
Commonwealth
emerging0.875 independent sources
evidence “They will ask Charles to use his authority to request legal advice from the judicial committee of the London-based privy council on whether the forced transportation of Africans to Jamaica was lawful from the privy council, the final court of appeal for some Commonwealth countries.” aol.co.uk · read source
Member of
Caribbean countries
emerging0.722 independent sources
evidence “Jamaica and other Caribbean countries have limited economic and political influence individually.” jamaica-gleaner.com · read source
Member of
CARICOM
emerging0.722 independent sources
evidence “Mr Khanal’s observations reiterate some important points that have long been on the agenda of global climate negotiations, pushed by developing countries, including Jamaica and its Caribbean Community (CARICOM) partners.” jamaica-gleaner.com · read source
Father
Mr Rajan
emerging0.703 independent sources
evidence “Mr Rajan went on to thank his children, Winston, Jamaica, Loveday and Nesta, who were sitting in the gallery for his final broadcast.” aol.co.uk · read source
Father
Rajan
emerging0.703 independent sources
evidence “Mr Rajan went on to thank his children, Winston, Jamaica, Loveday and Nesta, who were sitting in the gallery for his final broadcast.” aol.co.uk · read source