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Suriname People 1996
34% (female 70,845; male 74,330)
61% (female 130,153; male 133,693)
5% (female 10,897; male 9,626) (July 1995 est.)
24.72 births/1,000 population (1995 est.)
5.91 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.)
-3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.)
30.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.)
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Life expectancy at birth:
2.73 children born/woman (1995 est.)
Hindustani (also known locally as "East" Indians; their ancestors emigrated
from northern India in the latter part of the 19th century) 37%, Creole
(mixed European and African ancestry) 31%, Javanese 15.3%, "Bush Black"
(also known as "Bush Creole" whose ancestors were brought to the country in
the 17th and 18th centuries as slaves) 10.3%, Amerindian 2.6%, Chinese 1.7%,
Europeans 1%, other 1.1%
Hindu 27.4%, Muslim 19.6%, Roman Catholic 22.8%, Protestant 25.2%
(predominantly Moravian), indigenous beliefs 5%
Dutch (official), English (widely spoken), Sranang Tongo (Surinamese,
sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the
younger population and is lingua franca among others), Hindustani (a dialect
of Hindi), Javanese
age 15 and over can read and write (1990 est.)
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