_#_Imports: $370 million (f.o.b., 1988 est.);
commodities—capital equipment, petroleum, foodstuffs, cotton, consumer goods;
partners—US 37%, Netherlands 15%, Netherlands Antilles 11%, Trinidad and Tobago 9%, Brazil 5%, UK 3%, other 20%
_#_External debt: $138 million (1990 est.)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 16.4% (1988 est.); accounts for 22% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 458,000 kW capacity; 2,018 million kWh produced, 5,090 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: bauxite mining, alumina and aluminum production, lumbering, food processing, fishing
_#_Agriculture: accounts for 11% of both GDP and labor force; paddy rice planted on 85% of arable land and represents 60% of total farm output; other products—bananas, palm kernels, coconuts, plantains, peanuts, beef, chicken; shrimp and forestry products of increasing importance; self-sufficient in most foods
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-83), $2.5 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-87), $1.45 billion
_#_Currency: Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (plural—guilders, gulden, or florins); 1 Surinamese guilder, gulden, or florin (Sf.) = 100 cents