The Jamaican population has grown very little in the last decade.
That's according to the Statistical Institute of Jamaica, STATIN; which revealed the findings of the latest population census at a press conference on Wednesday.
STATIN says between 2001 and last year, just over 90,000 people were added to the population.
This means the country's population now stands at 2.7 million; just 3.5% more than it was at the last census, done in 2001.
According to STATIN this continues a trend of reduced annual rates of growth that have been observed since the 1970s; largely a result of a drop in Jamaica's birth rate.
Birth rates fell to an average of 17.4 per 1000 in the last few years, down from the 24.2 recorded for the period 1991 to 2001.
Death and migration also accounted for almost 350 thousand losses to the population.
The data for the 2011 census was collected from April to August last year.
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