Suriname
Waiting for the first voice
تا مرد سخن نگفته باشد / عیب و هنرش نهفته باشد
Until a man has spoken, his faults and his gifts both stay hidden.
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Did you know
Forests cover 93% of Suriname's land. (source)
Elders in numbers
- of people are 65 or older
- 8.2%
- people aged 65 or older
- 52.4K
- will be 65 or older in 2050
- 15%
- is how long people live after 60, on average
- 19.1 years
- of people 65+ live alone
- 16.1%
- women 17.1%, men 15.1%
Sources: World Bank, 2025; World Bank projection for 2050; WHO, 2023; UN, 2018
Languages
18 languages, 7 of them endangered
- MapidianCritically endangered
- LokonoSeverely endangered
- CaribDefinitely endangered
- TiriyóDefinitely endangered
- WayanaDefinitely endangered
- KwintiVulnerable
- WaraoVulnerable
- Businenge Tongo
- Caribbean Hindustani
- Dutch
- English
- Guyanese Creole
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- Portuguese
- Saramaccan
- Sranan Tongo
- Surinamese Javanese
- Joeka-Oajana Pidgin
- Kajana Sign Language
Languages and their status: Glottolog v5.3, CC BY 4.0. Names: Wikidata.
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