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Suriname is a developing country with a medium level of human development; its economy is heavily dependent on its abundant natural resources, namely bauxite, gold, petroleum, and agricultural products. Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the United Nations, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Indigenous Surinamese, the original inhabitants of Suriname, form 3.8% of the population. The main groups are the Akurio, Arawak, Kalina (Caribs), Tiriyó and Wayana. The Creoles (15.7%). These are descendants of enslaved Africans who also have some admixture from the Northern European (mostly Dutch), Spanish, Portuguese and Jewish colonists.
Suriname is a developing country with a medium level of human development; its economy is heavily dependent on its abundant natural resources, namely bauxite, gold, petroleum, and agricultural products. Suriname is a member of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the United Nations, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
Demographic characteristics. The Netherlands has approximately 365,000 people of Surinamese descent, making it the largest Caribbean community in Europe and one of the largest community from the Americas. It also make 37% of the entire Surinamese population worldwide. Since the Surinamese independence in 1975, over 100,000 Surinamese came to ...
Indigenous peoples in Suriname. Schoolchildren of the Kali'na community at Bigi Poika in Suriname. Indigenous peoples in Suriname, Native Surinamese, or Amerindian Surinamese, are Surinamese people who are of indigenous ancestry. They comprise approximately 3.5% of Suriname 's population of 612,985.
On the first of November 2005, the NGO Suriname Men United was founded [1] and it was launched on the first of December 2006, World AIDS Day.The idea to establish an organization focusing on the well-being of the Surinamese MSM community was born during a conference on Community Mobilization and Participatory Approaches to HIV/AIDS in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago in 2002.
Sign outside Anton de Kom University of Suriname. Anton de Kom University (Dutch: Anton de Kom Universiteit van Suriname) is the only university in Suriname.It is located in the capital, Paramaribo, and named for Anton de Kom, an anti-colonialist activist who was killed by the Nazis while in exile in the Netherlands.
Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname in the 19th century with the boeroes, poor farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of Gelderland, Utrecht, and Groningen. [1] Furthermore, the Surinamese ethnic group, the Creoles, persons of mixed African and European ancestry, are partially of Dutch descent.