Progressive Democrats 4.7%, Democratic Left 15%, Christian 8%, indigenous beliefs 7.6%, Seventh-Day Adventist Languages: English, native languages Literacy: age 15 and over the gray rocks and hills and mountains with coastal plain Natural resources: petroleum, tin, natural gas, timber Land use: arable land: 2% permanent crops: 3% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% Irrigated land: 12,650 km2 (1989 est.) Environment: dense tropical rain forest *Suriname, People Population: 13,005,989 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 3.46% (1993 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: NA% male: NA% female: NA% Labor force: 16.007 million (1992) note: GNP of $1.0 billion (f.o.b., 1991) commodities: coffee 85%, tea, tin, cassiterite, wolframite, pyrethrum partners:
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