Jamaica

Capital City:

Kingston

Languages:

English, Jamaican Patois

Category: Social
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Net enrollment ratio in primary education	91.5	91.2	90.40000000000001	89.5	91.8	91		86.7				MDG Database
Seats held by women in national parliament, percentage	13.3	13.3	13.3	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	11.7	13.3	13.3	13.3	UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Literacy rate, adult total (% of people ages 15 and above)									85.90000000000001			World Bank

Category: Land
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Source
Agricultural land (1000 Ha)	479	479	474	474	472	467	467	464	464	FAO
Forest area (sq km)	3,410	3,406	3,402	3,398	3,394	3,390	3,386	3,382		World Bank
Forest area (% of land area)	31.49	31.45	31.41	31.38	31.34	31.3	31.27	31.23		World Bank

Category: Tourism
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
International tourism receipts (% of total exports)	1,577	1,494	1,482	1,621	1,733	1,783	2,094					Development Data Group, The World Bank. 2008. 2008 World Development Indicators Online. Washington, DC: The World Bank. Available at: http://go.worldbank.org/U0FSM7AQ40.

Category: Demographics
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Source
Country population	2,589,390	2,604,790	2,617,500	2,625,700	2,638,100	2,650,400	2,663,100	2,675,800	2,687,200	2,699,620	World Bank
Population annual growth	0.584825	0.592976	0.486631	0.312969	0.471143	0.465161	0.478029	0.475754	0.425136	0.461	World Bank
Maternal mortality ratio (modeled estimate, per 100,000 live births)	91					87			89		World Bank

Category: Indices
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
HDI - Human Development Index	0.665					0.676	0.68	0.682	0.685	0.686	0.688	UNDP International Human Development Indicators - Calculated based on data from UNDESA (2009d), Barro and Lee (2010), UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2010b), World Bank (2010b) and IMF(2010a).

Category: Economy
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Source
GNI per capita, PPP (current international $)	5,570	5,680	5,700	6,130	6,370	6,600	7,040	7,230	7,550	7,230	World Bank
ODA received as % of GNI	0.1	0.62	0.27	0.07	0.87	0.38	0.33	0.23	0.55		UN Stats (MDGs indicators)
Workers remittances (current US$)	892,000,000	1,058,000,000	1,261,000,000	1,399,000,000	1,623,200,000	1,783,800,000	1,946,450,000	2,143,580,000	2,220,000,000		UN Data

Category: Energy
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	Source
Electric power consumption (kWh)	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	World Bank
Combustible renewables and waste (metric tons of oil equivalent)	477	477	455	458	478	469	483	484	World Bank
Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total)	86.98	87.42	87.5	87.83	87.37	86.81	88.43000000000001	89.84999999999999	World Bank

Category: Climate Change and Sea-level Rise
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2), thousand metric tons of CO2 (CDIAC)	10,319	10,627	10,301	10,722	10,561	10,165	12,152	13,964				MDG Database (CDIAC Data)

Category: Freshwater
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Improved water source (% of population with access)	93		93		93	93			94			World Bank

Category: Biodiversity
Indicator	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	Source
Proportion of terrestrial and marine areas protected	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34	7.34		UN Stats (MDGs indicators)

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Country Strategies:

Title	Programme Name	Programme Description	Year
UNFCCC Nat Comm - Jamaica	Jamaica's first national communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).	Strategy Description	2000
NBSAP - Jamaica	Convention on Biological Diversity: Third national Report	Strategy Description	2009
NSDS - Jamaica		Strategy Description National Information / National Reports

Adaptation Fund Board Accredits National and Regional Implementing Entities

Date: 10 Dec 2011 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

27 June 2011: At its 14th meeting, held in Bonn, Germany on 22 June 2011, the Adaptation Fund Board approved US$17.4 million in grant funding and accredited the National Environment Fund of Benin as the fourth National Implementing Entity and the West African Development Bank as the first Regional Implementing Entity. The grant funding was approved for Maldives, Mongolia and Turkmenistan. All three projects will be implemented by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). The Maldives project focuses...

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ECLAC Meeting Considers Climate Change Costs and Benefits in Caribbean Countries

Date: 10 Dec 2011 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

30 June 2011: The third Expert Group Meeting on Understanding the Potential Economic Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean, which was organized by the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), considered climate change costs and benefits in Caribbean countries. During the meeting, which was held on 30 June 2011, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, participants heard presentations of case studies on the economic costs and benefits of climate...

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Caribbean Wetlands Initiative Discusses Ramsar Convention Implementation

Date: 10 Dec 2011 | Source: SIDS Policy and Practice

13 July 2011: The second meeting of the Caribbean Wetlands Initiative discussed the region’s implementation of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention), and resulted in agreement on activities and material to be presented and disseminated during the upcoming Pan-American meeting and the 11th meeting of the contracting parties (COP 11) to the Ramsar Convention. The meeting took place in Kralendijk, on the island of Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean, from 4-9...

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