British Jamaican

British Jamaican (or Jamaican British) people are British persons who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its fourth generation and consists of around 800,000 individuals, one of the largest Jamaican diasporas on earth. The majority of British people of Jamaican origin were born in the United Kingdom as opposed to Jamaica itself. The Office for National Statistics estimated that in 2010 some 150,000 Jamaican-born people were resident in the UK, with only 49,000 of these retaining Jamaican citizenship.