Official Languages

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Languages spoken here

Hindi (secondary) · Jamaican Sign Language (secondary) · Levantine Arabic (secondary) · Portuguese (secondary) · Portuguese (Brazilian) (secondary) · Spanish (secondary)

“Secondary” means a community here speaks it alongside another language. It is not a statement of official or minority-language status.

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Jamaica

Peoples

Largest first.

People	Population	Language	Religion
Jamaican	2569000	Jamaican English Creole	Christianity
East Indian	93000	Hindi	Christianity
Han Chinese, Hakka	73000	Chinese, Hakka	Non-Religious
British	26000	English	Christianity
Arab, Lebanese general	21000	Arabic, Levantine	Islam
Cuban, other Hispanic	8500	Spanish	Christianity
Americans, U.S.	7700	English	Christianity
Deaf	7500	Jamaican Sign Language	Unknown
Portuguese	5700	Portuguese	Christianity

Languages

8 languages recorded here.

Arabic, Levantine

Chinese, Hakka

English

Hindi

Jamaican English Creole

Jamaican Sign Language

Portuguese

Spanish

All catalogue fields

149 fields recorded

rog3: JM
iso3: JAM
iso2: JM
ctry: Jamaica
poplpeoples: 2811000
cntpeoples: 9
cntpeopleslr: 1
poplpeopleslr: 7500
jpscalectry: 5
rol3officiallanguage: eng
officiallang: English
rlg3primary: 1
religionprimary: Christianity
percentchristianity: 81.122498265677
percentevangelical: 29.829024608687
c_10_40window: N
rog2: NAR
continent: North America
regioncode: 12
regionname: America, North and Caribbean
workersneeded: 1
harvest_rog3: JM
harvest_iso3: JAM
harvest_iso2: JM
harvest_owcountrycode: JAMA
harvest_ethnologuecountrycode: JM
harvest_countrynumber: 105
harvest_ctry: Jamaica
harvest_ctryshort: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamechinese: 牙买加
harvest_countrynamechineseshort: 牙买加
harvest_countrynamedutch: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamefrench: Jamaïque
harvest_countrynamefrenchshort: Jamaïque
harvest_countrynamegerman: Jamaika
harvest_countrynamegermanshort: Jamaika
harvest_countrynameindonesian: Jamaika
harvest_countrynameindonesianshort: Jamaika
harvest_countrynameitalian: Giamaica
harvest_countrynameitalianshort: Giamaica
harvest_countrynamekorean: 자메이카
harvest_countrynamekoreanshort: 자메이카
harvest_countrynamenorwegian: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamenorwegianshort: Jamaica
harvest_countrynameportuguese: Jamaica
harvest_countrynameportugueseshort: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamerussian: Ямайка
harvest_countrynamerussianshort: Ямайка
harvest_countrynamespanish: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamespanishshort: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamevietnamese: Jamaica
harvest_countrynamevietnameseshort: Jamaica
harvest_chineseconcatenationprefix: 在
harvest_frenchconcatenationprefix: de
harvest_germanconcatenationprefix: auf
harvest_indonesianconcatenationprefix: di
harvest_italianconcatenationprefix: -
harvest_koreanconcatenationprefix: 의
harvest_norwegianconcatenationprefix: i
harvest_portugueseconcatenationprefix: na
harvest_russianconcatenationprefix: B
harvest_spanishconcatenationprefix: en
harvest_vietnameseconcatenationprefix: ở
harvest_ethnologuemapexists: Y
harvest_rog2: NAR
harvest_regioncode2414: 9
harvest_regioncode: 12
harvest_unsr: 029
harvest_worldabc: C
harvest_capital: Kingston
harvest_population: 2837000
harvest_populationsource: UN Country Population (2025)
harvest_prayercastvideo: https://prayercast.com/jamaica.html
harvest_prayercastvimeourl: 75974327
harvest_waldnerguide: prayer-guide-caribbean-islands.pdf
harvest_jpscale: 5
harvest_c_10_40window: N
harvest_c_10_40windoworiginal: N
harvest_owpctevang: 28
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harvest_owevangelicalgrowthrate: 1.4
harvest_owcountrypage: jamaica
harvest_literacyrate: 89
harvest_literacysource: Ethnologue
harvest_percenturbanized: 56
harvest_rol3officiallanguage: eng
harvest_rlg3primary: 1
harvest_rlg4primary: 3
harvest_pctanimist: 10.2
harvest_pctbahai: 0.2
harvest_pctbuddhism: 0
harvest_pctchinese: 0.18
harvest_pcthindu: 0.65
harvest_pctislam: 0.3
harvest_pctsikh: 0
harvest_pctjudaism: 0.01
harvest_pctnonreligious: 4.65
harvest_pctother: 0.9
harvest_pctchristian: 82.91
harvest_pctchristianprotestant: 36.05
harvest_pctchristianindependent: 10.2
harvest_pctchristiananglican: 3.66
harvest_pctchristianromancatholic: 4.25
harvest_pctchristianorthodoxcatholic: 0.1
harvest_pctchristianmarginal: 1.95
harvest_pctchristianunaffiliated: 26.7
harvest_pctchristiandoublyprofessing: 0
harvest_pctchristianother: 0
harvest_pctchristianextra: 0
harvest_rop1: A007
harvest_hdiyear: 2015
harvest_hdivalue: 0.73
harvest_hdirank: 94
harvest_internetusers: 45
harvest_flashmapzoom: 950
harvest_flashmapzoomx: -191
harvest_flashmapzoomy: -419
harvest_googlemapzoom: 7
harvest_googlemaplat: 18.25
harvest_googlemaplng: -77.5
harvest_ctrylatitude: 18.109581
harvest_ctrylongitude: -77.29750799999999
harvest_securitylevel: 0
harvest_statedeptreligiousfreedom: https://www.state.gov/reports/2023-report-on-international-religious-freedom/jamaica/
harvest_provincesdisplayable: Y
harvest_adm1label: Provinces
harvest_wcdsubregioncode: 401
harvest_poplgrowthrate: 0.3567606136282555
harvest_godreportsurl: http://blog.godreports.com/country/?countrycode=jm&joshua=jm
harvest_datareportalurl: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2024-jamaica
harvest_internetusage: 55
harvest_internetusagesourceyear: 2017
harvest_biblesocietyurl: http://biblesocietywi.org/
harvest_areasquaremiles: 4243
harvest_areasquarekilometers: 10991
harvest_populationpersquaremile: 632
harvest_countryphonecode: 809
harvest_owpctchristian1986: 89.5
harvest_owpctevangelical1986: 14
harvest_owpctchristian1993: 50.4
harvest_owpctevangelical1993: 18.5
harvest_owpctchristian2001: 84.09999999999999
harvest_owpctevangelical2001: 26.3
harvest_religiondatayear: 2010
harvest_internetctrycode: .jm
harvest_worldfactbookurl: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/jamaica
harvest_source: pjj
harvest_editname: BM
harvest_editdate: 09/12/02 00:00:00