Suriname
Republic of Suriname
- Capital
- Paramaribo
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 640,000
- Currency
- SRD
- Area
- 163,820 km²
Across Suriname's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $1,138 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $280.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%21
- Safety20%74
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%96
- Connectivity10%72
- Cost10%64
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 38%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 8%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 36%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 6.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #42 worldwide
- 183
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #73 worldwide
- 64
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +826%
Cities in Suriname
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Paramaribo | 51 | 43.5 | $485 | $280 | 28.1 | 223.8K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 2Lelydorp | — | — | — | $300 | — | 18.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Brokopondo | — | — | — | — | — | 14.7K | Low confidence |
| 4Nieuw Nickerie | — | 41.8 | — | — | — | 12.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Koewarasan | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |