Country comparison: Germany / Suriname

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Germany and Suriname. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

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:	1991 AD	1975 AD
Capital:	Berlin	Paramaribo

Population

Details for Germany and Suriname

	Germany	Suriname
Population:	83,196,000	612,985
Inhabitants/km²:	232.7	3.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 74 years
Average age:	Ø 47.8 years	Ø 31.0 years
Birth rate:	9.60 ‰	18.15 ‰
Death rate:	12.30 ‰	8.67 ‰
Migrationrate:	1.78 ‰	2.51 ‰

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:	83	43
Civil rights:	95	43
Health:	96	48
Climate:	21	35
Cost of Living:	45	67
Popularity:	42	37

Economy

Details for Germany and Suriname

	Germany	Suriname
Currency:	euro (1 EUR = 100 Cent)	Surinam dollar (1 SRD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.0 %	8.6 %
Inflation rate:	6.87 %	52.45 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	83.56 %	37.65 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	48.80 %	27.90 %
Average income:	51,660 US$	4,410 US$
Government debt (% of GDP):	46.27 %	125.70 %
Corruption index:	21 (good)	60 (bad)

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	4,259,935 M US$	51.20 M US$	2,985 M US$	4.87 M US$
Gross national product:	4,298,325 M US$	51.66 M US$	2,703 M US$	4.41 M US$
Exported goods:	2,003,740 M US$	24.08 M US$	2,599 M US$	4.24 M US$
Imported goods:	1,775,164 M US$	21.34 M US$	2,342 M US$	3.82 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Germany and Suriname

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	625,000 km	7.51 km	4,304 km	7.02 km
Waterways:	7,467 km	0.09 km	1,200 km	1.96 km
Harbours:	599	0.0072	10	0.0163
Passenger airports:	37	0.0004	8	0.0131

Energy balance

Details for Germany and Suriname

	DEU: total	per 1000 inh.	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	2.175 tn kWh	26.14 m kWh	4.75 bn kWh	7.75 m kWh
Energy consumption:	500.35 bn kWh	6.01 m kWh	2.94 bn kWh	4.79 m kWh
Energy production:	545.20 bn kWh	6.55 m kWh	2.36 bn kWh	3.86 m kWh
Energy export:	66.93 bn kWh	804,497.06 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	48.05 bn kWh	577,515.20 kWh	808.00 m kWh	1.32 m kWh
CO2 emissions:	657.40 m t	7,901.83 t	2.65 m t	4,321.36 t

Telecommunication

Details for Germany and Suriname

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

	DEU total	DEU per 1000 inh.	SUR total	SUR per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	38,600,000	464	119,977	196
Mobile cellulars:	106,400,000	1279	906,170	1478
Internet server:	20,043,000	241	188	0
Internet users:	76,066,681	914	429,457	701
Broadband Internet:	36,880,564	443	122,961	201

Healthcare system

Details for Germany and Suriname

	Germany	Suriname
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	8.00	3.00
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	4.21	1.23
Diabetes:	10.4 %	12.5 %
HIV:	0.06 %	1.21 %
Tuberculosis:	0.05 ‰	0.29 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	74.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	22.0 %	25.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Germany and Suriname

	Germany	Suriname
Daytime temperatures:	13.9 °C	31.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	5.6 °C	22.9 °C
Rain days:	9.8	16.8
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	4.7

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Germany

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 %

Data inventory and updates

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