1.867 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: paddy rice, bananas, palm kernels, coconuts,
plantains, peanuts; beef, chickens; forest products; shrimp
Exports: $406.1 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Exports - commodities: alumina, aluminum, crude oil, lumber, shrimp
and fish, rice, bananas
Exports - partners: Norway 24%, Netherlands 23.8%, US 21.7%, France
7.3%, Japan 4.9%, UK (1998 est.)
Imports: $461.4 million (f.o.b., 1998)
Imports - commodities: capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs,
cotton, consumer goods
Imports - partners: US 31.2%, Netherlands 17.3%, Trinidad and Tobago
16.1%, Japan 4.3%, UK 4%, Brazil (1998)
Debt - external: $175.6 million (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: Netherlands provided $37 million for project
and program assistance, European Development Fund $4 million, Belgium
$2 million (1998)
Currency: 1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: Surinamese guilders, gulden, or florins (Sf.) per US$1
- 995 (December 1999), 710 (May 1999), 850 (January 1999); central
bank midpoint rate: 639.50 (1st Qtr 1999), 401.00 (1998), 401.00
(1997), 401.26 (1996), 442.23 (1995); parallel rate: 1,325 (December
1999), 2000 (May 1999), 800 (December 1998), 412 (December 1995)
note: beginning in 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, but subsequently fixed it when the
black-market rate plunged
Fiscal year: calendar year
@Suriname:Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 56,844 (1996)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 3,671 (1995)
Telephone system: international facilities good
domestic: microwave radio relay network
international: 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) (1997)
Televisions: 63,000 (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (1999)
@Suriname:Transportation
Railways:
total: 166 km (single track)
standard gauge: 80 km 1.435-m gauge
narrow gauge: 86 km 1.000-m gauge
Highways:
total: 4,530 km
paved: 1,178 km
unpaved: 3,352 km (1996 est.)
Waterways: 1,200 km; most important means of transport; oceangoing
vessels with
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