kWh (2001)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2001)
Oil - production:
10,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - consumption:
10,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA (2001)
Oil - imports:
NA (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:
37 million bbl (1 January 2002)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
0 cu m (1 January 2002)
Exports:
$495 million f.o.b. (2002)
Exports - commodities:
alumina, crude oil, lumber, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas
Exports - partners:
US 23.3%, Norway 18.4%, Belgium 12.5%, France 10.1%, Trinidad and
Tobago 7.1%, Iceland 4.7%, Italy 4.3%, Netherlands 4.2% (2003)
Imports:
$604 million f.o.b. (2002)
Imports - commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods
Imports - partners:
US 31.5%, Netherlands 18.2%, Trinidad and Tobago 12.5%, China 6.8%,
Japan 6.4% (2003)
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:
Surinamese guilder (SRG)
Currency code:
SRG
Exchange rates:
Surinamese guilders per US dollar - NA (2003), 2,346.75 (2002),
2,178.5 (2001), 1,322.47 (2000), 859.437 (1999)
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; the
government currently allows trading within a band of SRG 500 around
the official rate
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 (2000)
Waterways:
1,200 km (most navigable by ships with drafts up to 7
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