Country comparison Germany : Suriname

General information

	Germany	Suriname
Region:	Western Europe	South America
Area:	357,580 km²	163,820 km²
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1955 AD	1975 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Paramaribo

Population

	Germany	Suriname
Population:	83,161,000	586,634
Inhabitants/km²:	232.6	3.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 75 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 31.0 years
Birthrate:	9.30 ‰	18.05 ‰
Deathrate:	11.90 ‰	7.45 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.50 ‰	0.53 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Germany	Suriname
Political stability:	81	44
Civil rights:	94	43
Health:	96	50
Climate:	21	35
Cost of Living:	44	62
Popularity:	42	33

Economy

	Germany	Suriname
Currency:	Euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Surinam Dollar (1 SRD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.5 %	10.1 %
Inflation rate:	3.14 %	59.11 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	92.14 %	35.01 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	27.90 %
Average income:	51,040 US$	4,440 US$
Corruption index:	20 (good)	61 (bad)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,223,116 M US$	50.78 M US$	2,862 M US$	4.88 M US$
Gross national product:	4,242,859 M US$	51.02 M US$	2,627 M US$	4.48 M US$
Exported goods:	1,673,706 M US$	20.13 M US$	2,446 M US$	4.17 M US$
Imported goods:	1,451,647 M US$	17.46 M US$	1,845 M US$	3.15 M US$

Infrastructure

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.52 km	4,304 km	7.34 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	1,200 km	2.05 km
Harbours:	599	0.007	10	0.017
Airports:	539	0.006	55	0.094

Energy balance

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	536.50 bn kWh	6.45 m kWh	1.75 bn kWh	2.98 m kWh
Energy production:	612.80 bn kWh	7.37 m kWh	1.97 bn kWh	3.35 m kWh
Energy export:	78.86 bn kWh	948,282.52 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	28.34 bn kWh	340,785.27 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	709.54 m t	8,532.14 t	2.08 m t	3,545.65 t

Telecommunication

	Germany	Suriname
International dialing:	+49	+597
Internet domain:	.de	.sr

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	SUR total	SUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,300,000	461	103,240	176
Mobile cellulars:	107,500,000	1293	899,339	1533
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	188	0
Internet users:	74,760,764	899	287,129	489
Broadband Internet:	36,215,303	435	92,270	157

Healthcare system

	Germany	Suriname
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	8.00	3.00
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	1.23
Diabetes:	10.4 %	12.5 %
HIV:	0.06 %	0.51 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.3 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	69.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	25.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Germany and Suriname

	Germany	Suriname
Daytime temperatures:	13.6 °C	31.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.5 °C	22.9 °C
Rain days:	9.8	16.8
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	4.7

Native languages

	Germany	Suriname
German:	90.1 %	n/a
Sranantonga:	n/a	81.0 %
Russian:	3.6 %	n/a
Turkish:	2.6 %	n/a
South Slavic languages:	1.4 %	n/a
Italian:	0.7 %	n/a
Greek:	0.4 %	n/a
Polish:	0.3 %	n/a
other:	0.9 %	19.0 %

Religions

	Germany	Suriname
Christianity:	58.5 %	48.0 %
Nondenominational:	31.0 %	n/a
Hinduism:	0.1 %	27.4 %
Islam:	4.7 %	19.6 %
Native religions:	n/a	5.0 %
Buddhism:	0.3 %	n/a
Yazidism:	0.3 %	n/a
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.1 %	0.0 %