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Total population | |
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5,228 (2011 census)[1] 75,000[2] (estimate) | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Jamaica: Kingston Overseas: Toronto (Canada), New York City, South Florida (United States), England (United Kingdom) | |
Languages | |
Jamaican English, Jamaican Patois, Hakka; recent immigrants and businesspeople also speak Mandarin | |
Religion | |
Christianity (primarily Catholicism and Anglicanism) with some elements of Chinese folk religion,[3] Buddhism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Hakka people, Ethnic Chinese in Panama, Jamaican Americans, Jamaican Canadians |
Chinese Jamaicans are Jamaicans of Chinese ancestry, which include descendants of migrants from China to Jamaica. Early migrants came in the 19th century; there was another wave of migration in the 1980s and 1990s