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<text id=93CT1302>
<title>
Suriname--People
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Suriname
People</hdr><body>
<p>Population: 416,321 (July 1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Population growth rate: 1.54% (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Birth rate: 25.85 births/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Death rate: 6.1 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.)
</p>
<p>Net migration rate: -4.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993
est.)
</p>
<p>Infant mortality rate: 32.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1993
est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Life expectancy at birth:</l>
<l> total population: 69.14 years</l>
<l> male: 66.65 years</l>
<l> female: 71.76 years (1993 est.)</l>
</list>
<p>Total fertility rate: 2.85 children born/woman (1993 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Nationality:</l>
<l> noun: Surinamer(s)</l>
<l> adjective: Surinamese</l>
</list>
<p>Ethnic divisions: Hindustani (East Indian) 37%, Creole (black
and mixed) 31%, Javanese 15.3%, Bush black 10.3%, Amerindian
2.6%, Chinese 1.7%, Europeans 1%, other 1.1%
</p>
<p>Religions: Hindu 27.4%, Muslim 19.6%, Roman Catholic 22.8%,
Protestant 25.2% (predominantly Moravian), indigenous beliefs 5%
</p>
<p>Languages: Dutch (official), English widely spoken, Sranan
Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki) is native
language of Creoles and much of the younger population and is
lingua franca among others, Hindi Suriname Hindustani (a variant
of Bhoqpuri), Javanese
</p>
<list>
<l>Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)</l>
<l> total population: 95%</l>
<l> male: 95%</l>
<l> female: 95%</l>
</list>
<p>Labor force: 104,000 (1984)
</p>
<p> by occupation: NA
</p></body></article></text>