Country or area · South America · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Suriname population

Suriname population now

646,568

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 624,002–670,379.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 628,886

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 645,248; 95% range, 31 Dec: 624,002–670,379
Median age: 29.9
Aged 65+: 8.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 100 people

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SUR · 1950–2100 · in brief

Suriname in numbers

In mid-2023 there were 628,886 people in Suriname: the 171st-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and less than 0.01% of the world's people. That is 3.2 times its 1950 population of 196 thousand.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2071 at 753 thousand, then falling to 709 thousand by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 153 thousand to 4.0 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2076 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 18.9 in 1950 and 29.1 in 2023; the projection has 46.4 in 2100. 7.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 27.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2058 at 484 thousand.

By size it is the 171st country in 2023; the projection puts it 170th in 2050 and 171st in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Montenegro in 2025, Macao in 2040 and Bhutan in 2093. It is overtaken by Western Sahara in 2036, Mayotte in 2057 and Vanuatu in 2079.

Population, mid-2023: 628,886
Rank by population, 2023: 171 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: less than 0.01%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +0.92% · +5,722 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 3.9
Land area, 2023: 160,508 km²
Births, 2023: 10,879
Deaths, 2023: 4,182
Net migration, 2023: −988
Children per woman, 2023: 2.25
Median age, 2023: 29.1 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 73.6 years
In a city, 2025: 39 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 195,564
Projected, mid-2050: 733,905
Projected, mid-2100: 709,006

SUR · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Suriname, 1950–2100

Suriname: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	193,525		8,441	3,735	6.21	50.7
1951	estimate	197,604		8,753	3,354	6.24	51.1
1952	estimate	203,402		9,067	3,512	6.27	51.4
1953	estimate	209,302		9,391	3,547	6.30	52.1
1954	estimate	215,422		9,717	3,553	6.33	52.8
1955	estimate	221,823		10,071	3,544	6.37	53.5
1956	estimate	228,567		10,444	3,536	6.42	54.1
1957	estimate	235,716		10,791	3,538	6.46	54.7
1958	estimate	243,253		11,150	3,563	6.50	55.4
1959	estimate	251,215		11,509	3,620	6.55	55.9
1960	estimate	259,556		11,844	3,674	6.59	56.6
1961	estimate	268,280		12,100	3,739	6.58	57.3
1962	estimate	277,301		12,342	3,813	6.57	58.0
1963	estimate	290,523		12,656	3,819	6.51	58.5
1964	estimate	303,545		12,979	3,805	6.43	58.9
1965	estimate	314,536		13,083	3,814	6.32	59.1
1966	estimate	325,465		13,080	3,837	6.20	59.2
1967	estimate	336,805		12,998	3,894	6.04	59.2
1968	estimate	348,553		12,891	3,911	5.86	59.3
1969	estimate	360,679		12,819	3,939	5.70	59.4
1970	estimate	373,132		12,803	3,979	5.53	59.5
1971	estimate	385,752		12,846	4,032	5.36	59.6
1972	estimate	398,112		12,983	4,091	5.18	59.7
1973	estimate	396,713		12,914	4,038	5.01	59.8
1974	estimate	394,832		12,749	3,998	4.81	59.9
1975	estimate	392,521		12,557	3,970	4.63	60.0
1976	estimate	389,819		12,277	3,950	4.45	60.1
1977	estimate	386,759		11,934	3,937	4.26	60.3
1978	estimate	383,374		11,583	3,933	4.08	60.4
1979	estimate	379,630		11,251	3,938	3.92	60.5
1980	estimate	375,574		10,956	3,953	3.79	60.6
1981	estimate	375,180		11,370	3,829	3.75	60.8
1982	estimate	375,737		11,933	3,736	3.82	60.9
1983	estimate	377,373		12,460	3,663	3.87	61.1
1984	estimate	380,119		12,626	3,594	3.80	61.2
1985	estimate	384,268		12,714	3,537	3.71	61.4
1986	estimate	389,676		12,784	3,562	3.61	61.2
1987	estimate	394,984		12,846	3,526	3.53	61.3
1988	estimate	398,837		12,828	3,481	3.46	61.5
1989	estimate	405,617		12,839	3,397	3.39	62.0
1990	estimate	411,200		12,429	3,382	3.23	62.1
1991	estimate	413,785		11,990	3,354	3.09	62.1
1992	estimate	416,241		11,680	3,324	3.01	62.3
1993	estimate	418,938		11,422	3,296	2.94	62.4
1994	estimate	419,766		11,186	3,256	2.90	62.5
1995	estimate	424,984		11,208	3,239	2.90	62.8
1996	estimate	434,227		11,362	3,330	2.92	63.1
1997	estimate	443,433		11,543	3,437	2.95	63.4
1998	estimate	452,702		11,732	3,558	2.99	63.7
1999	estimate	462,109		11,931	3,695	3.02	64.0
2000	estimate	471,724		12,163	3,840	3.05	64.4
2001	estimate	481,562		12,338	3,989	3.06	64.8
2002	estimate	491,557		12,044	4,127	2.96	65.3
2003	estimate	501,546		11,658	4,263	2.84	65.8
2004	estimate	511,283		11,334	4,386	2.74	66.4
2005	estimate	516,563		11,269	4,233	2.71	67.0
2006	estimate	522,062		11,378	4,101	2.73	67.6
2007	estimate	527,932		11,453	3,986	2.73	68.3
2008	estimate	534,100		11,464	3,912	2.73	68.9
2009	estimate	540,391		11,444	3,884	2.71	69.3
2010	estimate	546,745		11,393	3,905	2.69	69.6
2011	estimate	553,101		11,360	3,960	2.67	69.8
2012	estimate	559,436		11,439	4,034	2.67	70.0
2013	estimate	565,830		11,450	4,100	2.65	70.1
2014	estimate	572,210		11,426	4,142	2.62	70.3
2015	estimate	578,536		11,329	4,180	2.57	70.6
2016	estimate	584,718		11,133	4,155	2.50	71.0
2017	estimate	590,796		10,953	4,180	2.43	71.3
2018	estimate	596,630		10,846	4,233	2.38	71.5
2019	estimate	602,395		10,824	4,261	2.35	71.8
2020	estimate	609,141		10,833	4,193	2.31	72.3
2021	estimate	615,492		10,861	5,569	2.29	68.9
2022	estimate	620,300		10,887	4,167	2.27	73.3
2023	estimate	626,028		10,879	4,182	2.25	73.6
2024	estimate	631,744		10,882	4,340	2.23	73.8
2025	projection	637,118	630,054–643,527	10,856	4,421	2.21	73.9
2026	projection	642,582	627,500–656,329	10,815	4,505	2.19	74.0
2027	projection	647,931	624,002–670,379	10,769	4,588	2.17	74.2
2028	projection	653,201	619,077–686,342	10,735	4,677	2.15	74.3
2029	projection	658,363	613,726–702,605	10,710	4,767	2.13	74.5
2030	projection	663,224	607,769–721,594	10,671	4,859	2.11	74.6
2031	projection	668,079	599,816–739,802	10,640	4,953	2.10	74.8
2032	projection	672,764	592,587–761,687	10,599	5,051	2.08	74.9
2033	projection	677,385	582,690–784,084	10,551	5,148	2.06	75.0
2034	projection	681,752	574,227–805,775	10,507	5,247	2.05	75.2
2035	projection	686,073	564,282–823,335	10,464	5,347	2.04	75.3
2036	projection	690,308	554,978–843,399	10,403	5,449	2.02	75.5
2037	projection	694,387	547,571–861,004	10,327	5,549	2.01	75.6
2038	projection	698,036	538,093–882,907	10,257	5,648	2.00	75.8
2039	projection	701,788	528,194–903,400	10,179	5,754	1.99	75.9
2040	projection	705,355	518,595–926,160	10,103	5,864	1.98	76.1
2041	projection	708,965	512,344–952,660	10,031	5,966	1.97	76.2
2042	projection	712,281	505,296–978,930	9,952	6,071	1.96	76.4
2043	projection	715,528	0.5–1.0 million	9,890	6,171	1.95	76.5
2044	projection	718,476	0.5–1.0 million	9,821	6,266	1.94	76.7
2045	projection	721,376	0.5–1.1 million	9,738	6,359	1.93	76.8
2046	projection	724,137	0.5–1.1 million	9,675	6,451	1.92	77.0
2047	projection	726,508	0.5–1.1 million	9,599	6,542	1.91	77.1
2048	projection	728,960	0.5–1.1 million	9,538	6,636	1.90	77.3
2049	projection	731,121	0.4–1.2 million	9,474	6,717	1.90	77.4
2050	projection	732,936	0.4–1.2 million	9,416	6,797	1.89	77.5
2051	projection	734,873	0.4–1.2 million	9,366	6,867	1.89	77.7
2052	projection	736,530	0.4–1.3 million	9,317	6,940	1.88	77.8
2053	projection	738,199	0.4–1.3 million	9,261	7,001	1.88	78.0
2054	projection	739,665	0.4–1.3 million	9,218	7,055	1.87	78.2
2055	projection	741,256	0.4–1.4 million	9,172	7,110	1.87	78.3
2056	projection	742,782	0.4–1.4 million	9,122	7,159	1.86	78.5
2057	projection	743,993	0.4–1.4 million	9,073	7,209	1.86	78.6
2058	projection	745,416	0.4–1.5 million	9,033	7,256	1.86	78.8
2059	projection	746,221	0.4–1.5 million	8,972	7,300	1.85	78.9
2060	projection	747,122	0.3–1.5 million	8,926	7,343	1.85	79.1
2061	projection	748,101	0.3–1.6 million	8,870	7,387	1.84	79.2
2062	projection	748,782	0.3–1.6 million	8,811	7,431	1.84	79.4
2063	projection	749,557	0.3–1.6 million	8,764	7,478	1.83	79.5
2064	projection	750,095	0.3–1.7 million	8,709	7,526	1.83	79.7
2065	projection	750,918	0.3–1.7 million	8,671	7,569	1.83	79.8
2066	projection	751,608	0.3–1.7 million	8,622	7,615	1.82	80.0
2067	projection	751,950	0.3–1.8 million	8,563	7,659	1.82	80.1
2068	projection	752,399	0.3–1.8 million	8,516	7,703	1.82	80.3
2069	projection	752,673	0.3–1.8 million	8,463	7,759	1.81	80.4
2070	projection	752,758	0.3–1.9 million	8,409	7,804	1.81	80.5
2071	projection	752,896	0.3–1.9 million	8,356	7,852	1.81	80.7
2072	projection	752,897	0.2–2.0 million	8,301	7,900	1.81	80.8
2073	projection	752,814	0.2–2.0 million	8,239	7,952	1.80	81.0
2074	projection	752,514	0.2–2.0 million	8,173	8,001	1.80	81.1
2075	projection	752,328	0.2–2.1 million	8,116	8,048	1.80	81.2
2076	projection	751,792	0.2–2.1 million	8,058	8,098	1.79	81.4
2077	projection	751,361	0.2–2.2 million	7,996	8,150	1.79	81.5
2078	projection	750,755	0.2–2.2 million	7,931	8,202	1.79	81.7
2079	projection	750,094	0.2–2.3 million	7,871	8,255	1.78	81.8
2080	projection	749,358	0.2–2.4 million	7,813	8,313	1.78	81.9
2081	projection	748,319	0.2–2.5 million	7,754	8,370	1.78	82.1
2082	projection	747,152	0.2–2.5 million	7,702	8,424	1.77	82.2
2083	projection	745,966	0.2–2.6 million	7,642	8,473	1.77	82.3
2084	projection	744,580	0.2–2.6 million	7,588	8,523	1.77	82.5
2085	projection	743,142	0.2–2.7 million	7,532	8,568	1.77	82.6
2086	projection	741,440	0.2–2.8 million	7,477	8,609	1.76	82.7
2087	projection	739,687	0.2–2.9 million	7,427	8,655	1.76	82.8
2088	projection	737,864	0.2–3.0 million	7,381	8,685	1.76	83.0
2089	projection	735,733	0.2–3.0 million	7,322	8,724	1.76	83.1
2090	projection	733,531	0.2–3.1 million	7,264	8,752	1.76	83.3
2091	projection	731,475	0.2–3.2 million	7,212	8,778	1.75	83.4
2092	projection	729,184	0.2–3.3 million	7,159	8,802	1.75	83.5
2093	projection	726,829	0.2–3.4 million	7,105	8,814	1.75	83.6
2094	projection	724,408	0.2–3.5 million	7,052	8,824	1.75	83.8
2095	projection	722,128	0.2–3.6 million	7,009	8,834	1.75	83.9
2096	projection	719,714	0.2–3.7 million	6,962	8,842	1.75	84.0
2097	projection	717,424	0.2–3.8 million	6,919	8,843	1.75	84.1
2098	projection	715,008	0.2–3.9 million	6,874	8,834	1.74	84.3
2099	projection	712,663	0.2–4.0 million	6,828	8,820	1.74	84.4
2100	projection	710,256	0.2–4.0 million	6,786	8,809	1.74	84.5

Show the numbers: Suriname, mid-2026, by single year of age

Suriname: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	5,454	5,260
1	5,448	5,255
2	5,434	5,242
3	5,420	5,228
4	5,409	5,216
5	5,393	5,200
6	5,384	5,190
7	5,384	5,188
8	5,410	5,212
9	5,475	5,277
10	5,554	5,364
11	5,611	5,430
12	5,632	5,451
13	5,628	5,445
14	5,598	5,414
15	5,576	5,394
16	5,582	5,403
17	5,576	5,405
18	5,547	5,386
19	5,491	5,341
20	5,410	5,270
21	5,364	5,234
22	5,398	5,274
23	5,488	5,374
24	5,573	5,472
25	5,591	5,501
26	5,530	5,454
27	5,412	5,345
28	5,267	5,204
29	5,110	5,044
30	4,940	4,868
31	4,767	4,672
32	4,620	4,492
33	4,511	4,361
34	4,441	4,275
35	4,428	4,230
36	4,410	4,221
37	4,342	4,214
38	4,307	4,194
39	4,349	4,188
40	4,444	4,209
41	4,550	4,226
42	4,584	4,206
43	4,492	4,121
44	4,307	3,963
45	4,103	3,814
46	3,891	3,710
47	3,658	3,618
48	3,476	3,526
49	3,416	3,441
50	3,457	3,415
51	3,574	3,469
52	3,691	3,537
53	3,708	3,572
54	3,628	3,543
55	3,518	3,440
56	3,412	3,326
57	3,314	3,254
58	3,234	3,218
59	3,180	3,211
60	3,114	3,203
61	3,018	3,152
62	2,906	3,048
63	2,764	2,910
64	2,580	2,762
65	2,381	2,610
66	2,186	2,448
67	1,988	2,302
68	1,800	2,187
69	1,632	2,078
70	1,479	1,976
71	1,334	1,867
72	1,216	1,740
73	1,136	1,614
74	1,053	1,461
75	945	1,290
76	827	1,140
77	702	1,024
78	594	958
79	520	918
80	462	861
81	410	784
82	366	699
83	329	634
84	290	587
85	246	530
86	202	456
87	162	370
88	127	292
89	102	240
90	82	208
91	64	180
92	50	152
93	38	124
94	26	100
95	19	77
96	12	56
97	8	40
98	5	27
99	3	18
100+	4	35

SUR · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Suriname, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

SUR · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Suriname

On the UN's projection, Suriname will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2058: 483,844 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 417,782.

100 aged 15–64

39 children

11 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

At no point between 1950 and 2100 do fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 here.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

SUR · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Suriname, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Suriname loses 853 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 172 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 20 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 4,703 (1962); its biggest loss, 11,390 (1977).

In 2024, 51,902 people living in Suriname had been born in another country, 8 of every 100 people there, against 4 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

SUR · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Suriname

Of every 100 babies born in Suriname in 2023, 12 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 16 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 12 under 20 and 11 aged 35 or older.

1950
12 · 77 · 11

2023
12 · 72 · 16

2050 · projected
7 · 66 · 27

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023: 10,879
Average age when women have a baby: 28.4 years; 28.2 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 48; 102 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Suriname by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	12	26	87	52	21	3
15–19	1,003	1,983	1,917	1,289	652	178
20–24	2,865	4,829	3,389	2,857	1,671	795
25–29	2,094	2,694	3,207	2,834	2,277	1,708
30–34	1,518	1,976	2,207	2,090	2,276	2,083
35–39	655	755	1,088	1,346	1,866	1,530
40–44	262	261	255	388	614	456
45–49	30	30	13	23	39	33
50–54	2	3	0	0	0	0
All babies	8,441	12,557	12,163	10,879	9,416	6,786

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

SUR · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Suriname

A baby born in Suriname in 2021 could expect 69.8 years of life, 60.3 of them in full health (95% range 59.3–61.4). That leaves 9.5 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

61.7 in full health, 11.0 not: 72.7 years

Men

58.9 in full health, 8.1 not: 67.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 61.7 healthy years of 72.7. Men: 58.9 of 67.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 63.1.

SUR · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Suriname

At the end of 2025, Suriname was hosting 3,215 people who had crossed a border into it, about 5 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad3,215
Suriname nationals abroad208

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 100 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Suriname living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 52 people asked for asylum in Suriname for the first time; 94 people from Suriname asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

SUR · of every 100 people

How people live in Suriname

Of every 100 people in Suriname in 2025, 39 lived in a city, 34 in a town or suburb and 27 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

1 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 12.6 of every 100 do not use the internet (2023).

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

SUR · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Suriname went in school

Of every 100 adults in Suriname in 2020, 7 never went to school and 31 finished upper secondary or went further.

7 never went to school 25 finished primary 37 finished lower secondary 21 finished upper secondary 10 studied after school

Among women, 2.9 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 12.3 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 2.3 against 6.3.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2060; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2085.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

SUR · cities · 2025

Cities in Suriname

Suriname had 1 city in 2025, home to 252,581 people.

Paramaribo252,581

How to read this: one bar for the city, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Suriname are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.