- ISO 3166
SR- Main language + region
nl-SR- Currency
- SRD · Surinamese Dollar
- Region
- South America
Suriname
Suriname has 646.8K people, and 565.3K of them are online. Dutch is the most widely spoken language at 90%, one of 4 languages CLDR lists here. Dutch is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to nl-SR.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
565.3K
0%world median 81%100%
87% of 646.8K people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2023 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$7,070
Higher than 44% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
—
No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
4
Dutch 90% · Sranan Tongo 68% · Traditional Chinese 1.1%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
—
Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
95%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Suriname
share of 646.8K people
- Dutchofficial90%582.1K
- Sranan Tongo68%439.8K
- Traditional Chinese1.1%7.1K
- Hmong Njua0.4%2.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Dutch in 10 territories and 32.9M speakers in total; Suriname holds 2% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Dutch profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (nl-SR).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 april 2026
Short: 21-04-2026
Time
18:30
Week starts Mon
Currency
$ 1.234,56
1,234.56 in SRD · Surinamese Dollar