Country comparison Suriname : United States

General information

	Suriname	United States
Region:	South America	North America
Area:	163,820 km²	9,831,510 km²
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1975 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Paramaribo	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Suriname	United States
Population:	586,634	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	3.6	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 68 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 75 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 28.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	18.30 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	7.39 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.53 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Suriname	United States
Political stability:	44	67
Civil rights:	43	81
Health:	53	74
Climate:	31	62
Cost of Living:	55	35
Popularity:	35	72

Economy

	Suriname	United States
Currency:	Surinam Dollar (1 SRD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	8.7 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	34.90 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living:	49.17 %	110.53 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	27.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	5,510 US$	65,910 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,808 M US$	6.49 M US$	20,936,600 M US$	63.54 M US$
Gross national product:	3,232 M US$	5.51 M US$	21,640,511 M US$	65.68 M US$
Exported goods:	2,287 M US$	3.90 M US$	2,127,248 M US$	6.46 M US$
Imported goods:	2,413 M US$	4.11 M US$	2,808,955 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,304 km	7.34 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Waterways:	1,200 km	2.05 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	10	0.017	3,652	0.011
Airports:	55	0.094	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.75 bn kWh	2.98 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	1.97 bn kWh	3.35 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.08 m t	3,545.65 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Suriname	United States
International dialing:	+597	+1
Internet domain:	.sr	.us

	SUR total	SUR per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	92,756	158	107,568,000	326
Mobile cellulars:	813,844	1387	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	188	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	287,129	489	287,527,944	873
Broadband Internet:	92,270	157	120,531,000	366

Healthcare system

	Suriname	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.10	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.23	2.59
Diabetes:	12.5 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.51 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	0.3 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	87.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	25.0 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Suriname and United States

	Suriname	United States
Daytime temperatures:	31.9 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.9 °C	7.2 °C
Rain days:	16.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	4.7	7.2

Native languages

	Suriname	United States
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Sranantonga:	81.0 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	10.7 %
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	19.0 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Suriname	United States
Christianity:	48.0 %	78.5 %
Hinduism:	27.4 %	1.0 %
Islam:	19.6 %	1.1 %
Native religions:	5.0 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	0.0 %	15.3 %