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Economy
Alcohol market
Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages
Tourism
2019: How much Jamaica is dependent on tourism:% of industry in GDP
Agriculture
2019: Average use of pesticides in agriculture
Consumption
Meat
2023: Poultry meat is the most consumed type of meat
Automobile traffic
Jamaica is a left-handed country.
Health care
2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave less than a month
Crime
2023: 53.3 murders per 100,000 population due to arms smuggling from the United States
About 90% of the killing weapons in their countries are purchased legally in and USA then smuggled abroad, Caribbean island nation officials said. "The right to bear arms in the US," notes one prime minister, "does not mean that there is also a right to trade these weapons."
History
1975
Center in a red jersey, Bob Marley. Around him are members of his band The Wailers and the Jackson Five and among them 16-year-old Michael Jackson, sitting to Bob's left in a striped shirt.
This meeting took place in Kingston during the Jackson Brothers' tour. At their stop, they didn't forget to walk past Bob Marley's home at 56 Hope Road in Jamaica's capital, which currently houses his museum.