Suriname Analytics

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Official Language:
1. Dutch : 33,966
2. Standard Chinese : 4,761

Mother Tongue : Dutch

Literacy Rate (%) : 94.40

Country Capital	:	Paramaribo
GDP Per capita	:	22,104
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	85^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	74
Unemployment Rate	:	0
Number of Internet Users	:	478,609
Internet Users Rank	:	163^rd/195
Area	:	156,016
Area Rank	:	90^th/195
Total Population	:	640
Total Population Rank	:	164^th/195

Continent: South America

Cities with > 100K popln: 1

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Suriname Highlights

Suriname is the 164^th ranked country in population and 90^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Better than World Average-

1. Suriname is the 108^th highest ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that there is a better educational infrastructure in this country as compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Suriname is the 31^st worst ranked in Employment in Services out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate lesser diposable income among the population of the country, or simply imply lesser urbanisation compared to other countries.
2. The average Total Population (2025) of the countries in the world is 42,003. Suriname is the 32^nd worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. Taking into context the total population of the world, this country is less populated in comparison to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Suriname is the 33^rd worst ranked in Internet Users . This may take into context a lower country population, and implies that there are lesser people with access to the internet when compared to other countries.

Suriname Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1127
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	162	1235
2	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	162	1234
3	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	162	1232
4	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	158	1232
5	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	151	1230
6	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	129	1234
7	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	139	1231
8	Honey prod.	Tons	16,211	115	1230
9	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	99	1230
10	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	95	1233
11	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	77	1230
12	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	69	1231
13	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	65	1235
14	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	73	1235
15	Oil Prod.	Barrels/day	4,369,531	70	1235
16	Oil Prodcuced/Total Oil Produced %		5	63	1232
17	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	66	1231
18	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	49	1234
19	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	44	1232
20	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	44	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	2	1129
Below than World Average-
1	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	175	1233
2	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	173	1235
3	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	613	156	1230
4	Import Ban(Number of products)	Count	12	84	1230
5	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	85	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Hindu Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	2	6	1125
2	Christian Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	42	91	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Christian Pop./Total Christian Pop.%	% People	0	133	1234
2	Christian Population	# People	11,885,917	135	1232
3	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	119	1231
4	# Olympic Medals	Count	157	104	1231
5	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	93	1235
6	Jewish Population	# People	78,295	72	1232
7	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	71	1233
8	Jewish Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	0	42	1232
9	Hindu Pop./Total Hindu Pop.%	% People	0	20	1235
10	Hindu Population	# People	6,207,784	21	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	10	1125
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	95	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	161	1235
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	150	1232
3	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	30	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	28	1129
Below than World Average-
1	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	156	1233
2	# Theaters	Count	310	58	1235
3	Theaters/Total Theaters %.	Percent	0	55	1231
4	Theaters per 100000	Ratio	1	49	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	55	1126
2	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	55	1127
3	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	63	1125
4	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	63	1128
5	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	80	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	165	1231
2	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	163	1232
3	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	160	1234
4	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	159	1230
5	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	158	1230
6	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	123	1233
7	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	124	1232
8	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	124	1232
9	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	120	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	82	1130
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	93	1126
3	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	104	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	163	1233
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	142	1234
3	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	139	1232
4	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	151	1234
5	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	129	1235
6	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	147	1234
7	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	139	1231
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	104	1232
9	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	99	1233
10	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	83	1233
11	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	76	1231
12	Facebook CPC in Rs.	Absolute	5	71	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	85	1129
2	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	120	1126
Below than World Average-
1	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	141	1231
2	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	163	1234
3	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	132	1234
4	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	160	1231
5	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	111	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	108	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	163	1231
2	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	159	1232
3	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1232
4	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	92	1234
5	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	79	1230
6	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	77	1235
7	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	76	1233
8	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	28	1235
9	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	5,059,423	27	1230
10	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	88,812	17	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	165	1234
2	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	165	1232
3	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	164	1231
4	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	161	1234
5	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	83	1231
6	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	39	1230
7	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	101	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	160	1235
2	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	108	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	43	1231
2	Dutch	# People	91,018	10	1235
3	Dutch as a % of total Dutch speakers	% People	0	9	1232

Suriname Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Dutch	5.31 %
2	Standard Chinese	0.74 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Paramaribo	268,039