ate conversion - $1.35 billion (1991 est.)
National product real growth rate:
-2.5% (1991 est.)
National product per capita:
$3,300 (1991 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
26% (1991)
Unemployment rate:
16.5% (1990)
Budget:
revenues $466 million; expenditures $716 million, including capital
expenditures of $123 million (1989 est.)
Exports:
$417 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
commodities:
alumina, aluminum, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas
partners:
Norway 36%, Netherlands 28%, US 11%, Japan 7%, Brazil 5%, UK 5% (1989)
Imports:
$514 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)
commodities:
capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods
partners:
US 41%, Netherlands 24%, Trinidad and Tobago 9%, Brazil 4% (1989)
External debt:
$138 million (1990 est.)
Industrial production:
growth rate -5.0% (1991 est.); accounts for 27% of GDP
Electricity:
458,000 kW capacity; 2,018 million kWh produced, 4,920 kWh per capita (1992)
Industries:
bauxite mining, alumina and aluminum production, lumbering, food processing,
fishing
Agriculture:
accounts for 10.4% of GDP and 25% of export earnings; paddy rice planted on
85% of arable land and represents 60% of total farm output; other products -
bananas, palm kernels, coconuts, plantains, peanuts, beef, chicken; shrimp
and forestry products of increasing importance; self-sufficient in most
foods
Economic aid:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-83), $2.5 million; Western (non-US)
countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $1.5 billion
Currency:
1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.) = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
Surinamese guilders, gulden, or florins (Sf.) per US$1 - 1.7850 (fixed rate
until October 1992), 25.04 (January 1992)

*Suriname, Economy

Fiscal year:
calendar year

*Suriname, Communications

Railroads:
166 km total; 86 km 1.000-meter gauge, government owned, and 80 km
1.435-meter standard gauge; all single track
Highways:
8,300 km total; 500 km paved; 5,400 km bauxite gravel, crushed stone, or
improved earth; 2,400 km sand or clay
Inland waterways:
1,200 km; most important means of transport; oceangoing vessels with drafts
ranging up to 7 m can navigate many of the principal waterways
Ports:
Paramaribo, Moengo, Nicuw Nickerie
Merchant marine:
3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,472 GRT/8,914 DWT; includes 2 cargo,
1 container
Airports:
total:
46