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Today, awareness of the Rastafari movement has spread throughout much of the world, largely through interest generated by reggae music, especially the major international success of Jamaican singer / songwriter Bob Marley ( 1945 – 1981 ).

Bob Marley in France noted as a Rasta. By 1997, there were, according to one estimate, around one million Rastafari faithful worldwide.

In the 2001 Jamaican census, 24, 020 individuals ( less than 1 percent of the population ) identified themselves as Rastafarians.

Other sources have estimated that in the 2000s they formed " about 5 percent of the population " of Jamaica, or have conjectured that " there are perhaps as many as 100, 000 Rastafarians in Jamaica ".