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2011 Census of Population & Housing - Jamaica
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Characteristics of the Population
Age and Sex
The 2011 census results show that of the total population of 2,697,983, females
numbered 1,363,450 and males 1,334,533. Between 2001 and 2011 the male population
grew faster (4 per cent) than the female population (3 per cent). The excess of women
over men dropped quite considerably from 40,538 in 2001 to 28,917 in 2011. The result
was an increase in the sex ratio (the number of males per 100 females) from 96.9 per 100
in 2001 to 97.9 in 2011.
Table (vi) Sex Composition of the Population: 2001 and 2011
Item
2011
2001
No of
Persons
Percent
of Total
No of
Persons
Percent
of Total
Total
2,697,983
100.00
2,607,632
100.00
Male
1,334,533
49.46
1,283,547
49.22
Female
1,363,450
50.54
1,324,085
50.78
Excess of Females/Males
28,917
40,538
Sex Ratio
97.88
96.94
Change between 2001 and 2011
Absolute
Change
Percentage
Change
Annual Rate of
Growth (%)
Total
90,355
3.46
0.36
Male
50,986
3.97
0.41
Female
39,369
2.97
0.31
The parish data (Table (vii)) show that the number of parishes where the number of
men exceed the number of women increased from seven in 2001 to ten in 2011. The
traditional male dominated parishes of St Ann, Trelawny, Hanover, Westmoreland, St
Elizabeth, Manchester and Clarendon have now been joined by St Mary, Portland and
Kingston. In St Thomas, men and women are almost equally numbered. The increase in
the sex ratio for Kingston may be attributed to the large institutional male population.
The female dominated parishes were St Andrew with the lowest sex ratio of 91.7, St
Catherine (96.7) and St James (96.9).