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Topic 02 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Suriname: Economy & Innovation
What does an economy do for the people inside it?
Suriname is placed 94th of 176 countries on economy & innovation in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: GDP per Capita (PPP) 19,357 (2025); Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit 31.03 (2025).
Economy & Innovation
94th
of 176 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
- 19,357GDP per Capita (PPP), 2025GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)
- 31.03Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit, 2025Firms with a bank loan or line of credit (%)
- —Economic Complexity Index, 2024No reading for this country
- —Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, 2024No reading for this country
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Suriname on economy & innovation — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
GDP per Capita (PPP)
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Output per person: the standard measure of an economy's size set against the population it has to support.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
19,357
GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)
Higher is better
Suriname: 19,357. Across the 185 countries in this edition, values run from 1,067 (Burundi) to 139,593 (Singapore); the world median is 17,265.
- World median
- 17,265
- Best in South America
- 83,659 Guyana
- Land neighbours
- Brazil 20,025 · France 55,125 · Guyana 83,659
Each grey tick is one of 185 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 4
Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Whether businesses can borrow from the formal financial system — the firm-level counterpart to adults holding a bank account.
Latest reading per country, 2016–2025 · Suriname’s is from 2025 · CC BY 4.0
31.03
Firms with a bank loan or line of credit (%)
Higher is better
Suriname: 31.03. Across the 179 countries at their latest reading, values run from 2.113 (Pakistan) to 88.52 (Israel); the world median is 35.95.
- World median
- 35.95
- Best in South America
- 82.72 Chile
- Land neighbours
- Brazil 57.56 · France 76.45 · Guyana 50.52
Each grey tick is one of 179 countries at its latest reading, 2016–2025.
Key 3 of 4
Economic Complexity Index
Growth Lab at Harvard University
Why it is a key: What an economy knows how to make, read from the diversity and rarity of what it exports.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC0 1.0
No reading
ECI score (standardised, roughly −3 to +3)
Higher is better
Growth Lab at Harvard University publishes no 2024 figure for Suriname, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 145 countries in this edition, values run from -3.53 (Chad) to 1.729 (Japan); the world median is 0.131.
- World median
- 0.131
- Best in South America
- 0.349 Brazil
- Land neighbours
- Brazil 0.349 · France 1.087
Each grey tick is one of 145 countries in the 2024 edition.
Key 4 of 4
Account Ownership at a Financial Institution
World Bank Group
Why it is a key: Whether ordinary adults are inside the financial system at all, which output per person does not reveal.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 4.0
No reading
Adults with an account (% of population aged 15+)
Higher is better
World Bank Group publishes no 2024 figure for Suriname, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 139 countries in this edition, values run from 14.83 (Niger) to 99.85 (Iceland); the world median is 72.83.
- World median
- 72.83
- Best in South America
- 87.32 Venezuela
- Land neighbours
- Brazil 86.38 · France 99.19
Each grey tick is one of 139 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Suriname is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
GDP per Capita (PPP)
GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP) · higher is better
SurinameWorld median
Suriname rose from 16,220 in 2000 to 19,357 in 2025; the world median went from 10,589 to 17,265.
Every year’s figures
Year Suriname World median 2025 19,357 17,265 2024 19,179 18,108 2023 19,021 17,686 2022 18,743 16,933 2021 18,458 16,260 2020 19,091 15,631 2019 22,967 16,761 2018 22,939 16,349 2017 22,071 16,129 2016 21,950 15,512 2015 23,328 14,857 2014 24,414 14,475 2013 24,624 14,681 2012 24,194 14,631 2011 23,830 13,916 2010 22,772 14,101 2009 21,906 13,655 2008 21,516 14,030 2007 20,902 13,755 2006 20,114 12,983 2005 19,220 12,023 2004 18,586 11,608 2003 17,384 11,183 2002 16,678 11,144 2001 16,557 10,907 2000 16,220 10,589
03In context
Suriname beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 176 countries on economy & innovation, never a place within the region.
1st176thNot placed · 48 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Suriname and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 176 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | GDP per Capita (PPP)GDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP) | Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of CreditFirms with a bank loan or line of credit (%) | Economic Complexity IndexECI score (standardised, roughly −3 to +3) | Account Ownership at a Financial InstitutionAdults with an account (% of population aged 15+) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 France | 7th | 55,125 | 76.45 | 1.087 | 99.19 |
 Brazil | =46th | 20,025 | 57.56 | 0.349 | 86.38 |
| Suriname | 94th | 19,357 | 31.03 | — | — |
 Guyana | not placed | 83,659 | 50.52 | — | — |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across South America
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 176.
Placed either side on economy & innovation
The countries immediately above and below Suriname in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Suriname is ahead of the world, and behind
14 more statistics filed under economy & innovation, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median3
Statistics on which Suriname does better than the middle country measured.
Livestock Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 107.06124.07107.06▼ Worsened since 2012
Suriname: 124.07 · world median 107.06 · Livestock production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 35.52 to 190.08; higher is better.
Position 40th of 194 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
ICT Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 7.47410.577.474▲ Improved since 2014
Suriname: 10.57 · world median 7.474 · ICT services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 56.25; higher is better.
Position 41st of 118 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Digitally-Deliverable Services ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 25.4227.1725.42▼ Worsened since 2014
Suriname: 27.17 · world median 25.42 · Digitally-deliverable services exports (% of services exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.377 to 87.15; higher is better.
Position 81st of 170 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median7
Statistics on which Suriname does worse than the middle country measured.
Liner Shipping Connectivity IndexUNCTAD · 2026 · world median 56.2145.9656.21▲ Improved since 2016
Suriname: 45.96 · world median 56.21 · LSCI (index, average Q1 2023 = 100). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2026 edition, data for 2026.
Published values in that edition run from 4.13 to 1,319; higher is better.
Ranked 91st of 175 by UNCTAD.
GDP GrowthWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 3.3961.7923.396▲ Improved since 2015
Suriname: 1.792 · world median 3.396 · GDP growth (annual %). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -5.847 to 19.34; higher is better.
Position 139th of 186 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
ICT Goods ExportsUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 0.9750.090.975▲ Improved since 2014
Suriname: 0.09 · world median 0.975 · ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 61.45; higher is better.
Position 95th of 119 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Regulatory QualityWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median -0.093-0.795-0.093▼ Worsened since 2015
Suriname: -0.795 · world median -0.093 · Regulatory Quality (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.106 to 2.113; higher is better.
Position 168th of 209 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Food Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 106.0887.89106.08▼ Worsened since 2012
Suriname: 87.89 · world median 106.08 · Food production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 71.08 to 177.49; higher is better.
Position 176th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Government AI Readiness IndexOxford Insights · 2025 · world median 40.1918.3740.19▼ Worsened since 2020
Suriname: 18.37 · world median 40.19 · AI readiness score (0–100). Oxford Insights, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 12.12 to 88.36; higher is better.
Ranked 181st of 195 by Oxford Insights.
Crop Production IndexFAO · 2022 · world median 106.2380.24106.23▼ Worsened since 2012
Suriname: 80.24 · world median 106.23 · Crop production index (2014–2016 = 100). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 53.79 to 189.93; higher is better.
Position 181st of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end4
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Foreign Direct Investment InflowsUNCTAD · 2025 · world median 1.96842.811.968Moved since 2015
Suriname: 42.81 · world median 1.968 · FDI inflows (% of GDP). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -32.97 to 2,221.
Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP)World Bank Group · 2021 · world median 1.7089.5931.708Moved since 2011
Suriname: 9.593 · world median 1.708 · Natural resources rents (% of GDP). World Bank Group, 2021 edition, data for 2021.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 61.03.
Position 45th of 180 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Tariff Rate, Applied, Weighted Mean, All ProductsWorld Bank Group · 2022 · world median 3.667.83.66No real change since 2012
Suriname: 7.8 · world median 3.66 · Applied tariff rate, trade-weighted mean (%). World Bank Group, 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 29.52.
Container Port TrafficUNCTAD · 2024 · world median 1,827,788105,9491,827,788Moved since 2014
Suriname: 105,949 · world median 1,827,788 · Container port traffic (TEU, twenty-foot equivalent units). UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 17,263 to 299,703,800.
Position 95th of 103 — derived here by ordering the published values, counted from the highest value. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No current reading for Suriname
Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Adjusted Net Savings (last 2010), Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP) (last 2024), Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Debt Service on External Debt (last 2023), Economic Complexity Index, Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) (last 2010), External Debt Stocks (% of GNI) (last 2023), General Government Consumption (last 2010), Gini Index (last 2022), Global Innovation Index, GNI per Capita (PPP) (last 2021), Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP) (last 2010), Gross Savings (% of GDP) (last 2010), Household Consumption (last 2010), Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP) (last 2010), Income Share Held by Lowest 20% (last 2022), Income Share Held by Richest 10% (last 2022), Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP) (last 2024), Logistics Performance Index, Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) (last 2024), Palma Ratio (last 2022), Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, Trade (% of GDP) (last 2010) and World Energy Trilemma Index. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Economy & Innovation among Suriname’s 16 topics
Economy & Innovation is Suriname’s 9th best-placed topic of 16. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Democracy & Civil Libertiesjoint 60th of 1983/3 keys
- Energy61st of 1932/3 keys
- Peace & Securityjoint 58th of 1773/4 keys
- Gender & Equality60th of 1833/4 keys
- Environment & Sustainability81st of 1812/3 keys
- Health & Wellbeing92nd of 2003/4 keys
- Governance & Institutions94th of 1944/4 keys
- Risk & Resilience94th of 1923/3 keys
- Economy & Innovation94th of 1762/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequality94th of 1592/2 keys
- Development & Human Capital122nd of 1963/3 keys
- Work & Labourjoint 119th of 1824/4 keys
- Food & Agriculture122nd of 1754/4 keys
- Mobility & Tradejoint 112th of 1472/3 keys
- Education & Knowledge131st of 1714/4 keys
- Digital & Technology153rd of 1983/3 keys
06The top of the list
Who leads on economy & innovation
The three countries placed highest of 176, and the leaders Suriname can most readily be measured against.
1
AustriaWestern Europe
1st of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0, greyscale
2
JapanEastern Asia
2nd of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Photo: JurriaanH · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
GermanyWestern Europe
3rd of 176 · 4 of 4 keys
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Americas
Canada18th4/4 keysHighest in South America
Chile41st4/4 keysThis page
Suriname94th2/4 keys
Positions out of 176 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Analysis
Charts and analysis about Suriname and economy & innovation
On economy & innovation
China Leads Global High-Technology Exports
The world’s ten largest high-technology exporters as a treemap, with the rest of the world beside them. Each country’s figure is its own most recent year, between 2022 and 2024.
On economy & innovation
India vs Pakistan 2025: Comparison of Hunger Index, Happiness, HDI, Rule of Law, Literacy & GDP
India and Pakistan on six published measures: hunger, happiness, human development, rule of law, literacy and GDP per capita. India is the better placed on five of them; Pakistan on one.
On economy & innovation
Countries in Asia with the highest average salaries 2024
Thirteen Asian countries by gross average monthly wage, each carrying its WORLD rank rather than an Asian one — so the numbers skip, from 11th place to 45th.
08Questions
Suriname on economy & innovation: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Suriname rank on economy & innovation?
Suriname is placed 94th of 176 countries on Economy & Innovation in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (GDP per Capita (PPP) and Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest GDP per Capita (PPP) figure for Suriname?
19,357 in 2025 (gDP per capita (constant 2021 international $, PPP)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 17,265.
What is the latest Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit figure for Suriname?
31.03 in 2025 (firms with a bank loan or line of credit (%)), according to World Bank Group. The world median in the same edition was 35.95.
How does Suriname compare with Brazil on economy & innovation?
Brazil is placed joint 46th of 176, and Suriname 94th. GDP per Capita (PPP): Brazil 20,025, Suriname 19,357; Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit: Brazil 57.56, Suriname 31.03.
How have Suriname’s economy & innovation figures changed?
GDP per Capita (PPP) rose from 16,220 in 2000 to 19,357 in 2025.
Which economy & innovation statistics are missing for Suriname?
No current reading is published for Suriname on Account Ownership at a Financial Institution, Adjusted Net Savings, Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added (% of GDP), Business Ready: Operational Efficiency, Business Ready: Public Services, Business Ready: Regulatory Framework, Debt Service on External Debt, Economic Complexity Index, Exports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), External Debt Stocks (% of GNI), General Government Consumption, Gini Index, Global Innovation Index, GNI per Capita (PPP), Gross Capital Formation (% of GDP), Gross Savings (% of GDP), Household Consumption, Imports of Goods and Services (% of GDP), Income Share Held by Lowest 20%, Income Share Held by Richest 10%, Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), Logistics Performance Index, Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), Palma Ratio, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, Trade (% of GDP) and World Energy Trilemma Index. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
09Keep reading
Explore further
Suriname, topic by topic
- Governance & Institutions94th of 194
- Work & Labour=119th of 182
- Education & Knowledge131st of 171
- Health & Wellbeing92nd of 200
- Development & Human Capital122nd of 196
- Environment & Sustainability81st of 181
- Gender & Equality60th of 183
- Democracy & Civil Liberties=60th of 198
- Peace & Security=58th of 177
- Risk & Resilience94th of 192
- Mobility & Trade=112th of 147
- Food & Agriculture122nd of 175
- Poverty & Inequality94th of 159
- Energy61st of 193
- Digital & Technology153rd of 198
- The full Suriname profile
Nearby, on economy & innovation
The key statistics, for every country
10Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
The total size of an economy is deliberately left out: a very large economy spread over a very large population is not doing more for each person. Growth rates, trade shares and the structure of output (how much is farming, industry or services) are published here as context, because they describe an economy's shape rather than how well it serves people. Jobs and wages have their own topic, Work & Labour.
How the Economy & Innovation standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 4 indicators on this topic are keys and 40 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2024 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 4 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 176 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 4.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- GDP per Capita (PPP) — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Firms with a Bank Loan or Line of Credit — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
- Economic Complexity Index — Growth Lab at Harvard University, CC0 1.0
- Account Ownership at a Financial Institution — World Bank Group, CC BY 4.0
The other 14 statistics on this page come from 4 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Suriname’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Suriname (banner) — WiDi, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Austria — chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Japan — JurriaanH, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Germany — dronepicr, CC BY 2.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Suriname: Economy & Innovation — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/suriname/economy