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Jamaica
Triplandio Jamaica guide covers 4 travel guides with 1 city across 15 areas, complete with hotel picks. Explore 16 self-guided walking tours in Jamaica with 59 POI, spanning 59.6 km in total. Get inspired by 5 local dishes, complete with recipes and our unique Food Flavour DNA graph.
City & Country Data Jamaica
Key travel data — cost of living, safety, healthcare, local currency and essentials, curated by Triplandio.
🌍 Jamaica
Cost
HIGH
Safety
46
Health
30
Lifestyle
71
Infra
37
Rank
#74
Score
31
Tourists
1.3M/y
GDP/cap
$8.0k
Life Exp
71.6 yrs
Population
2.8M
Currency
JMD J$
Language
English
Payments
Mixed
Emergency
112
Traditional Local Food Jamaica
Main course
Fish & Seafood
Run Down
Run-down
· Salt fish in coconut sauce
Salt fish simmered in coconut milk sauce.
Open Run Down recipe
Bread
Vegan
Bammy
Bam-ee
· Fried cassava flatbread
Flatbread made from cassava root.
Open Bammy recipe
Bread
Vegetarian
Festival
Fest-i-val
· Fried cornmeal dumpling
Sweet fried dumplings made from cornmeal.
Open Festival recipe
Main course
Fish & Seafood
Escovitch Fish
Es-kuh-vitch Fish
· Fried fish with pepper sauce
Fried fish topped with a tangy pepper sauce.
Open Escovitch Fish recipe
Main course
Meat
Jerk Chicken
Jurk Chick-en
Spicily marinated and grilled chicken.
Open Jerk Chicken recipe