e--by occupation: agriculture NA%, industry NA%,
services NA%

Unemployment rate: 20% (1997)

Budget:
revenues: $393 million
expenditures: $403 million, including capital expenditures of $34
million (1997 est.)

Industries: bauxite and gold mining, alumina and aluminum
production, lumbering, food processing, fishing

Industrial production growth rate: 6.5% (1994 est.)

Electricity--production: 1.62 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--production by source:
fossil fuel: 19.75%
hydro: 80.25%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0% (1996)

Electricity--consumption: 1.62 billion kWh (1996)

Electricity--exports: 0 kWh (1996)

Electricity--imports: 0 kWh (1996)

Agriculture--products: paddy rice, bananas, palm kernels,
coconuts, plantains, peanuts; beef, chickens; forest products; shrimp

Exports: $548.84 million (1997)

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

Exports--partners: Norway 24%, Netherlands 22%, US 22%, France
9.5%, Japan 7.6%, UK 6.5% (1997)

Imports: $551.8 million (1997)

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

Imports--partners: US 48%, Netherlands 21.2%, UK 5.1%, Japan 4%
(1997)

Debt--external: $216 million (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $76.4 million (1995); note?the
Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and
Suriname in 1996

Currency: 1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.) = 100
cents

Exchange rates: Surinamese guilders, gulden, or florins (Sf.) per
US$1--850 (January 1999); central bank midpoint rate: 401.00 (1998),
401.00 (1997), 401.26 (1996), 442.23 (1995), 134.12 (1994); parallel
rate: 800 (December 1998), 412 (December 1995), 510 (December 1994)
note: beginning July 1994, the central bank midpoint exchange rate
was unified and became market determined; during 1998, the exchange
rate splintered into four distinct rates; in January 1999 the
government floated the guilder

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 43,522 (1992 est.)

Telephone system: international facilities good
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 32, shortwave 1

Radios: 290,256 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (in addition, there are seven
repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: 59,598 (199