World population/Suriname
South America
Population of Suriname
645,265
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#170
world rank
0.01%
of world population
+0.82%
yearly change
+5,307
people this year
10,815
births a year
4,507
deaths a year
How the figure for Suriname is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Suriname at 645,265 on 1 July 2026, and projects 650,572 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Suriname at number 170 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.01 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 10,815 births and 4,507 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.