Editing Suriname (section)

==Health==
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[[File:AZP Suriname.jpg|thumb|[[Academic Hospital Paramaribo]] is the largest hospital in Suriname with 465 beds]]
The [[Global Burden of Disease]] Study provides an on-line data source for analyzing updated estimates of health for 359 diseases and injuries and 84 risk factors from 1990 to 2017 in most of the world's countries.<ref>{{cite web|title=GBD Compare {{!}} IHME Viz Hub|url=https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/|website=vizhub.healthdata.org|access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref> Comparing Suriname with other Caribbean nations show that in 2017 the age-standardized [[death rate]] for all causes was 793 (males 969, females 641) per 100,000, far below the 1219 of [[Haiti]], somewhat below the 944 of [[Guyana]] but considerably above the 424 of  [[Bermuda]]. In 1990, the death rate was 960 per 100,000. [[Life expectancy]] in 2017 was 72 years (males 69, females 75). The death rate for children < 5 years was 581 per 100,000 compared to 1308 in Haiti and 102 in Bermuda. In 1990 and 2017, the leading causes of age-standardized death rates were cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes/chronic kidney disease.