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Migration in Jamaica: A Country Profile 2018

Thematic Area
Policy, governance and liaison, and legal
Year
2018
Country
Jamaica
Language
English

The recent Migration Profile for Jamaica shows that emigration continues to be greatly in excess of immigration. The overall trend of decreasing numbers of permanent emigrants to the three traditional and still major destinations –United States, United Kingdom and Canada – continued but numbers trended downwards from around 29,000 in 2006 to less than 23,000 in 2015.