, lumber, shrimp and fish, rice, bananas

Exports - partners:

Canada 26.8%, Norway 20.2%, Belgium 9.2%, US 8.9%, UAE 7.9%, France
7.2% (2007)

Imports:

$1.297 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:

capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods

Imports - partners:

US 27%, Netherlands 17.3%, Trinidad and Tobago 14.3%, China 5.9%,
Japan 5.1% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$43.97 million (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$263.3 million (2006)

Debt - external:

$504.3 million (2005 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

Surinam dollar (SRD)

Currency code:

SRG

Exchange rates:

Surinamese dollars (SRD) per US dollar - 2.745 (2007), 2.745 (2006),
2.7317 (2005), 2.7336 (2004), 2.6013 (2003)
note: in January 2004, the government replaced the guilder with the
Surinamese dollar, tied to a US dollar-dominated currency basket

Communications
Suriname

Telephones - main lines in use:

81,500 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

320,000 (2006)

Telephone system:

general assessment: international facilities are good
domestic: combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity about
90 telephones per 100 persons; microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 597; 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 7 repeaters) (2000)

Televisions:

63,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.sr

Internet hosts:

33 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

2 (2000)

Internet users:

44,000 (2007)

Transportation
Suriname

Airports:

50 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
under 914 m: 4 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 45
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 40 (2007)

Pipelines:

oil 50 km (2007)

Roadways:

total: 4,304 km
paved: 1,130 km
unpaved: 3,174 km (2003)

Waterways:

1,200 km (most navigable by ships with drafts up to 7 m) (2005)

Merchant marine:

total: 1
by type: cargo 1 (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Paramaribo, Wageningen

Military
Suriname

Military branches:

National Army (Nationaal Leger, NL; includes Naval Wing, Air Wing)
(2007)

Military service age and obligati