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Suriname

639,850

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+5.42K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+34.2%from 476.64K
Life expectancy73.8 years2024
Fertility rate2.23births per woman · 2024
Urban population65.8%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Suriname is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1425.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.2%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate17.2births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.8deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+10.3births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-967net people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Suriname look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 733.9K in 2050—15.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024634.43K
  2. 2050733.9K
  3. 2100709.01K
Median age in 205035.8years
Births in 20509.42Kduring the year
Deaths in 20506.8Kduring the year
Life expectancy77.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 1960263.92K
  2. 1970379.44K
  3. 1980375.38K
  4. 1990412.49K
  5. 2000476.64K
  6. 2010549.92K
  7. 2020612.32K
  8. 2025639.85K
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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