JAMAICA

WELCOME TO OUR COUNTRY :)

SECTION 1

• Brief History
• Society Gov.
• Geography climate
• Culture
• Resources industries

brief history

• Indians
• 1494 colony of Spain
• 1655 colony of Britain
• 1962 Aug.6th indenpendence

SOCIETY & GOVERNMENT

• 2,930,050(140) BLACK
• PNP & JLP
• constitutional monarchy (君主立宪制)
• Women premier
• Christinaity

PEOPLE

• Literacy 87.9%
• Population growth rate 0.71%
• Median age: 27.25 yeas
• Population below poverty line: 16.5% 

POPULATION STRUCTURE

GEOGRAPHY & climate

• North America , Caribbean Sea
• 10,991 sq km
• tropical , hot,  humid
•  mountains   coastal plain
• Kingston (Cap) Montego Bay

Untitled Slide

blue mountAIN

blue mountain coffEe

Montego BAY:)

CULTURE OF SPORTS

CULTURE OF MUSIC

CULTURE OF FOOD

NATURAL RESOURCES & INDUSTRIES

• bauxite, gypsum, limestone,yams(山药)
• tourism rum:) 
• light manufacture
• telecommunications
• paper, cement, metal  ...

economy

• Exports : 34.5%
• Imports : -58.4%
• Labor force: 1.26 million
• Unemployment rate: 16.3% !!!!!!! 
• Inflation rate): 9.4%( 207 )  (97) 

GDP - composition by sector 

key advantages

• well educated people
• 66% of working population
• lack of imports!
• abundance of nature resources
• lack infrastructures (140%)

qUESTION?

invest in jamaica:)