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The largest proportions of Jamaican Americans live in South Florida and New York City, both of which have been home to large Jamaican communities since the 1950s and the 1960s. There are also communities of Jamaican Americans residing in Connecticut , Georgia , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Maryland , Massachusetts , and California .
In the late 20th and early 21st century close to a million [8] Jamaicans have emigrated, especially to the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.Though this emigration appears to have been tapering off somewhat in recent years, the great number of Jamaicans living abroad has become known as the "Jamaican diaspora".
Many Jamaicans now live overseas and outside Jamaica, while many have migrated to Anglophone countries, including over 400,000 Jamaicans in the United Kingdom, over 300,000 in Canada and 1,100,000 in the United States. [24]
Thus, during the 1970s and '80s, many Jamaicans who entered Canada were children and husbands of the Jamaican women who moved to Canada between 1955 and 1965. According to Anderson (1993), Caribbean immigrants to Canada were more likely to settle in large cities and their provinces of choice were Ontario and Quebec .
The number of people in the United States identifying as Jamaican because they were either born in the English-speaking Caribbean nation or are of Jamaican ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
In 1992, Denevan suggested that the total population was approximately 53.9 million and the populations by region were, approximately, 3.8 million for the United States and Canada, 17.2 million for Mexico, 5.6 million for Central America, 3 million for the Caribbean, 15.7 million for the Andes and 8.6 million for lowland South America. [13]
Puerto Rico (US) (7%) Jamaica (6.1%) Trinidad and Tobago (3.3%) Map of Caribbean islands. Table. Country / dependency % total UN 2023 estimate % change Official figure
There are a growing number of millionaires in America, and that's not just due to inflation. Even after adjusting for inflation, the percentage of households with a net worth of at least seven ...