bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
14,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
1,370 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - imports:
1,644 bbl/day (2003)

Oil - proved reserves:
99 million bbl (2004)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (2004)

Exports:
$495 million f.o.b. (2002)

Exports - commodities:
alumina, crude oil, lumber, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas

Exports - partners:
Norway 29.3%, US 15.1%, Canada 12.5%, Belgium 10.2%, France 8.4%,
UAE 6.1%, Iceland 4.3% (2004)

Imports:
$604 million f.o.b. (2002)

Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods

Imports - partners:
US 26.2%, Netherlands 19.3%, Trinidad and Tobago 13.5%, Japan 6.6%,
China 4.6%, Brazil 4.2% (2004)

Debt - external:
$321 million (2002 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
Netherlands provided $37 million for project and program
assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium $2 million
(1998)

Currency (code):
Surinam dollar (SRD)

Currency code:
SRG

Exchange rates:
Surinamese dollars per US dollar - 2.7336 (2004), Surinamese
guilders per US dollar - 2.6013 (2003), 2.3468 (2002), 2.1785
(2001), 1.3225 (2000)
note: during 1998, the exchange rate splintered into four distinct
rates; in January 1999 the government floated the guilder, but
subsequently fixed it when the black-market rate plunged; in January
2004, the government introduced the Surinamese dollar as replacement
for the guilder, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency basket

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Suriname

Telephones - main lines in use:
79,800 (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
168,100 (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: international facilities are good
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 597; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 4, FM 13, shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios:
300,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus seven repeaters) (2000)

Televisions:
63,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.sr

Internet hosts:
18 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
20,000 (2002)

Transportation Suriname

Highways:
total: 4,492 km
paved: 1,168 km
unpaved: 3,324 km (2002)

Waterways:
1,200 km (most navigable by ships with drafts up to 7 m) (2003)