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2019/10/14 06:13:46

Jamaica

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Economy

Alcohol market

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

Data for 2018

Tourism

2019: How much Jamaica is dependent on tourism:% of industry in GDP

Which countries are most dependent on tourism,% of the industry in GDP, 2019

Agriculture

2019: Average use of pesticides in agriculture

As of 2019

Consumption

Meat

2023: Poultry meat is the most consumed type of meat
The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.

Automobile traffic

Jamaica is a left-handed country.

Data for 2017

Health care

2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave less than a month

Data as of September 1, 2020

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

Bob Marley and Michael Jackson, Jamaica, 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.

George Harrison and Bob Marley, 1975