Suriname Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GDP: $1.1 billion (1984); $2,980 per capita (1984); real growth rate —1.0% (1984)

Natural resources: forests, hydroelectric power potential, fish, shrimp, bauxite, iron ore, and other minerals

Agriculture: main crops—rice, bananas, palm oil, timber

Major industries: bauxite mining, alumina and aluminum production, lumbering, food processing

Electric pou er: 420,000 kW capacity (1985); 1.61 billion kWh produced (1985), 4,290 kWh per capita

Exports: $356 million (f.o.b., 1984); alumina bauxite, aluminum, rice, wood and wood products

Imports: $346 million (c.i.f., 1984); capital equipment, petroleum, iron and steel, cotton, flour, meat, dairy products

Major trade partners: exports—26% Netherlands, 17% US, 13% FRG; imports—30% US, 21% Trinidad and Tobago, 9% Netherlands (1983)

Aid: economic—bilateral commitments, including Ex-lm—US (FY70-83), $2.5 million, Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF (1970-83), $1.4 billion; no military aid

Budget -revenues, $261 million; expenditures, $421 million (1984 est.)

Suriname

Monetary conversion rate: 1.79 Suriname guilders=US$l (September 1985)

Fiscal year: calendar year

NOTE: The information regarding Suriname on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Suriname 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Suriname 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.