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 AD	1776 AD
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 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 75 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 31.0 years	Ø 38.5 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)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Suriname	United States
Political stability:	44	63
Civil rights:	43	81
Health:	50	71
Climate:	35	66
Cost of Living:	62	38
Popularity:	33	67

Economy

	Suriname	United States
Currency:	Surinam Dollar (1 SRD = 100 Cents)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.1 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	59.11 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	35.01 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	27.90 %	36.60 %
Average income:	4,620 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	39 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	SUR: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	2,884 M US$	4.92 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	2,710 M US$	4.62 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	2,446 M US$	4.17 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	1,845 M US$	3.15 M US$	2,811,124 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	3,627	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:	103,240	176	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	899,339	1533	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	188	0	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	287,129	489	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	92,270	157	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Suriname	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	3.00	2.87
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:	79.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	25.0 %	23.4 %

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 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	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 %