Jamaican peoples
  _cropped.jpg)  File:Clive Chin cropped.jpg   Notable Jamaican people: Rajiv Maragh • Yendi Phillips • Bunny Lee • Sean Paul • Clive Chin • Usain Bolt • Bob Marley • Marcus Garvey | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Jamaica(Nationwide) 2,847,232[1]  England(London, Manchester, Birmingham) 900,000  United States(New York, Miami) 850,000  Canada(Toronto) 231,110 | |
| Languages | |
| English (Jamaican English) and Patois | |
| Religion | |
| Mainly Church of God of Prophecy | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Demographics of Jamaica, Jamaican British, Jamaican American, Jamaican Canadian, African diaspora, Black people, Indo-Jamaican, Jewish Jamaican, Jamaican Maroon |
Jamaicans are people originating on the Caribbean island of Jamaica whether they live there or in the Jamaican diaspora.
Diaspora
Many Jamaicans now live overseas and outside of Jamaica, the majority have migrated to Anglophone countries, including some 900,000 Jamaicans in the United Kingdom, around 850,000 Jamaicans in the United States and 231,110 in Canada.
Within the Caribbean , there are reportedly 30,000 Jamaicans in the Dominican Republic[2] and an equal number residing in other CARICOM members states[3] (mainly in the Bahamas (with 5,600),[4] Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados and Trinidad & Tobago).[3] Cuba meanwhile is host to 5,000 Jamaicans.[5]
As of November 21, 2013, an estimated 16,958 Jamaicans could be residing illegally in Trinidad &Tobago, as according to the records of the Office of the Chief Immigration Officer, their entry certificates would have since expired. [6]
Notable Jamaicans
See: List of Jamaicans
See also
- Demographics of Jamaica
- Jamaican British
- Jamaican American
- Jamaican Australian
- Jamaican Canadian
- Jamaicans in Ethiopia
