Suriname
63 figures for Suriname, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Suriname compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $7,070 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $22,652 (2025)
- Economic growth +1.8% (2025)
- Unemployment 7.8% (2025)
- Inflation +16.2% (2024)
- Exports 52.5% (2010)
- Income per person $17,344 (2023)
- Household wealth 85.2 (2019)
- Poorer households 3.9% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.08 (2019)
People
- Population 628,892 (2023)
- Population growth +0.85% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.23 (2024)
- Typical age 28.1 (2023)
- Living in cities 65.8% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.722 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.993 (2023)
- People per household 3.9 (2019)
- People over 65 7.7% (2019)
- Children under 15 27.6% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 20.3 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 21.3 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 73.6 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 15.8 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 84 (2023)
- Health spending per person $297 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 73% (2024)
- Overweight adults 58.1% (2022)
- Stunted children 8.2% (2019)
- Overweight children 3.8% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 79.5% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 86.5% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 8.4 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.0 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 76.1% (2023)
- Education spending 3.4% (2022)
- Teens in school 86.3% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 4.71 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 2.99 million (2024)
- Forest cover 94.4% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 13.5 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 14.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 26.1 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 1,695 (2023)
- Access to electricity 99.0% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 52.9% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 85.0% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 87.4% (2023)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 149.1 (2022)
- Home broadband 20.0 (2022)
- Homes with internet 52.2% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 96.5% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 9.7% (2023)
- Cereal yield 4,079 (2023)
- Farmland 0.4% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 7.0% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.78 (2025)
- Human rights 0.91 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.38 (2025)
- Women in parliament 31.4% (2025)
- Clean government 59.9 (2022)