Editing Suriname (section)

===Emigration===
[[File:Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute Objectnumber 60008924 Een groep Brits-Indische immigranten.jpg|thumb|left|Immigrants from India]]

The option to choose between Surinamese or Dutch citizenship in the years leading up to Suriname's independence in 1975 led to a mass migration to the Netherlands. This migration continued in the period immediately after independence and during military rule in the 1980s and for largely economic reasons extended throughout the 1990s. The [[Surinamese people in the Netherlands|Surinamese community]] in the Netherlands numbered 350,300 {{As of|2013|lc=y}} (including children and grandchildren of Suriname migrants born in the Netherlands), compared to approximately 566,000 Surinamese in Suriname itself.<ref name=cia />

According to the [[International Organization for Migration]], around 272,600 people from Suriname lived in other countries in the late 2010s, in particular in the Netherlands ({{circa|192,000}}), France (c. 25,000, most of them in [[French Guiana]]),{{refn|group=lower-alpha|The [[International Organization for Migration]] made a confusion regarding the number of Surinamese migrants living in French Guiana. Their number is already included in the number for France (24,753 at the time of writing), as can be seen here: [https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3633212#tableau-Econtinent_radio1 données complémentaires].}} the United States (c. 15,000), [[Guyana]] (c. 5,000), [[Aruba]] (c. 1,500), and Canada (c. 1,000).<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.iom.int/world-migration| title=World Migration| author=International Organization for Migration| access-date=2019-02-03| author-link=International Organization for Migration| archive-date=1 May 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501120652/https://www.iom.int/world-migration| url-status=dead}}</ref>