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<text id=93CT1304>
<title>
Suriname--Economy
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Suriname
Economy</hdr><body>
<p>Overview: The economy is dominated by the bauxite industry,
which accounts for 15% of GDP and about 70% of export earnings.
The economy has been in trouble since the Dutch ended
development aid in 1982. A drop in world bauxite prices which
started in the late 1970s and continued until late 1986 was
followed by the outbreak of a guerrilla insurgency in the
interior that crippled the important bauxite sector. Although
the insurgency has since ebbed and the bauxite sector recovered,
a military coup in December 1990 reflected continued political
instability and deterred investment and economic reform. High
inflation, high unemployment, widespread black market activity,
and hard currency shortfalls continue to mark the economy.
</p>
<p>National product: GDP - exchange rate conversion - $1.35
billion (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product real growth rate: -2.5% (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>National product per capita: $3,300 (1991 est.)
</p>
<p>Inflation rate (consumer prices): 26% (1991)
</p>
<p>Unemployment rate: 16.5% (1990)
</p>
<p>Budget: revenues $466 million; expenditures $716 million,
including capital expenditures of $123 million (1989 est.)
</p>
<list>
<l>Exports: $417 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: alumina, aluminum, shrimp and fish, rice,
bananas</l>
<l> partners: Norway 36%, Netherlands 28%, US 11%, Japan 7%,
Brazil 5%, UK 5% (1989)</l>
<l>Imports: $514 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.)</l>
<l> commodities: capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs,
cotton, consumer goods</l>
<l> partners: US 41%, Netherlands 24%, Trinidad and Tobago 9%,
Brazil 4% (1989)</l>
</list>
<p>External debt: $138 million (1990 est.)
</p>
<p>Industrial production: growth rate -5.0% (1991 est.); accounts
for 27% of GDP
</p>
<p>Electricity: 458,000 kW capacity; 2,018 million kWh produced,
4,920 kWh per capita (1992)
</p>
<p>Industries: bauxite mining, alumina and aluminum production,
lumbering, food processing, fishing
</p>
<p>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
</p>
<p>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
</p>
<p>Currency: 1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.)=100
cents
</p>
<p>Exchange rates: Surinamese guilders, gulden, or florins (Sf.)
per US$1 - 1.7850 (fixed rate until October 1992), 25.04
(January 1992)
</p>
<p>Fiscal year: calendar year
</p></body></article></text>