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People
Population: 396,813 (July 1990), growth rate 1.4% (1990).
Birth rate: 27 births/1,000 population (1990).
Death rate: 6 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
Net migration rate: -7 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
Infant mortality rate: 40 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 71 years female (1990).
Total fertility rate: 2.9 children born/woman (1990).
Nationality: noun--Surinamer(s); adjective--Surinamese.
Ethnic divisions: 37.0% Hindustani (East Indian), 31.0%
Creole (black and mixed), 15.3% Javanese, 10.3% Bush black,
2.6% Amerindian, 1.7% Chinese, 1.0% Europeans, 1.1% other.
Religion: 27.4% Hindu, 19.6% Muslim, 22.8% Roman Catholic,
25.2% Protestant (predominantly Moravian), about 5% indigenous
beliefs.
Language: 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; also Hindi Suriname Hindustani
(a variant of Bhoqpuri), and Javanese.
Literacy: 65%.
Labor force: 104,000 (1984).
Organized labor: 49,000 members of labor force.