Suriname

General information

Name	Suriname
Long name	Republic of Suriname
Population (people)	492,829 (2004)
Population (source)	census
Constitutional form	Republic
Drives on	Left
Head of state authority	Executive
Main continent	Americas
Number of airports	47
Airports - with paved runways	5
Airports - with unpaved runways	42
Area (m²)	163,820
Birth rate (births/1,000 population)	17
Calling code
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%)
Current Account Balance (US$)	389,500,000
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)	6
Debt - external (Billion US$)	1
Economic aid donor (Billion $)
Electricity consumption (billion kWh)	1
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)	2,571
Electricity exports (million kWh)	0
Electricity imports (million kWh)	0
Electricity production (billion kWh)	2
Exports (Billion $)	2
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)	9,600
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)	5
GDP real growth rate (%)	5
Gross national income (US$)	53
Human Development Index	1
Health expenditures (% of GDP)	8
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HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%)	1
HIV AIDS deaths	200
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS	3,700
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population)	3
Capital city	Paramaribo
Currency	Surinamese dollar
Imports (Billion $)	1
Industrial production growth rate (%)	7
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)	29
Inflation rate consumer prices (%)	20
Internet hosts	186
Internet tld	.sr
Internet users	163,000
Investment (gross fixed) (%)
Iso 3166 code	SR
ISO CODE	SUR
Labor force	165,600
Life expectancy at birth (years)	71
Literacy (%)	90
Manpower available for military service	134,218
Manpower fit for military service	109,445
Manpower reaching militarily age annually	4,119
Is democracy	Yes
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$)
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)	130
Merchant marine	1
Military expenditures percent of GDP	1
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person)	0
Natural gas exports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas imports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas production (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters)	0
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population)	1
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%)
Oil consumption (bbl/day)	15,000
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people)	27
Oil exports (bbl/day)	3,058
Oil imports (bbl/day)	5,668
Oil production (bbl/day)	14,460
Oil proved reserves (bbl)	78,900,000
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population)	0
Population below poverty line (%)	70
Population census (people)	492,829 (2004)
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer)	3
Population estimate (people)
Population growth rate (%)	1
Public debt (% of GDP)
Railways (km)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$)	263,300,000
Roadways (km)	4,304
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$)
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$)
Telephones main lines in use	85,000
Telephones main lines in use per capita	18
Telephones mobile cellular	890,000
Telephones mobile cellular per capita	185
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	2
Unemployment rate (%)	9
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%)	22
Waterways (km)	1,200
Valley
Helicopter
Canyon
Artillery
Crater
Religion
Continent	Americas
Border	Frontera entre Brasil y Surinam, Frontière entre la France et le Suriname, Frontière entre le Guyana et le Suriname
Plateau	Guiana Shield
Marsh
Demonym	surinamese

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