Editing Demographics of Suriname (section)

==Ethnic groups==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|+'''Population of Suriname according to ethnic group'''
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! width="100pt" rowspan="2" | Ethnic<br />group
! colspan="2" | Census 1921|| colspan="2" | Census 1950<ref name=carncr>{{cite web |url=http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Suriname.pdf |title=National Census Report: Suriname |work=[[Caribbean Community|Caricom]] |date=2009 |page=32 |access-date=2 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170627135503/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Suriname.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>|| colspan="2" | Census 1964<ref name=carncr />||colspan="2" | Census 1972<ref name=carncr />|| colspan="2" | Census 1980<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Suriname.pdf |title=National Census Report: Suriname |work=[[Caribbean Community|Caricom]] |date=2009 |page=31 |quote=Except for the 1980 census, all censuses since the first in 1921 included ethnicity as a variable of interest. For unknown reasons, the government did not allow the Census Bureau to include this variable. |access-date=2 December 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170627135503/http://www.caricomstats.org/Files/Publications/NCR%20Reports/Suriname.pdf |archive-date=27 June 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>|| colspan="2" | Census 2004<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.refworld.org/docid/4da2c4942.html|title=National report submitted in accordance with paragraph 15 (a) of the annex to Human Rights Council resolution 5/1 Suriname* |work=UN Human Rights Council |date=16 February 2011 |page=7}}</ref>|| colspan="2" | Census 2012<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/Suriname/SUR-Census2012-vol1.pdf |title=Censusstatistieken 2012 |work=Algemeen Bureau voor de Statistiek in Suriname (General Statistics Bureau of Suriname) |page=76 |access-date=20 October 2022 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305071544/http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/2010_PHC/Suriname/SUR-Census2012-vol1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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! Number || % || Number || % || Number || %||Number || % ||Number || %|| Number || % || Number || %
|-
|align=left|[[Indo-Surinamese|East Indian]]|| || ||62,280||31.3||112,633||34.7||142,917||37.6|| || ||135,117||27.4||148,443||27.4
|-
|align=left|[[Maroon (people)|Maroon]]s|| || ||19,180||9.7||27,698||8.5||35,838||9.4|| || ||72,553||14.7||117,567||21.7
|-
|align=left|[[Creole people|Creole]]|| || ||71,657||36.1||114,961||35.5||119,009||31.4|| || ||87,202||17.7||84,933||15.7
|-
|align=left|[[Javanese Surinamese|Javanese]]|| || ||35,270||17.8||48,463||14.9||57,688||15.2|| || ||71,879||14.6||73,975||13.7
|-
|align=left|Mixed|| || ||0||0.0||0||0.0||0||0.0|| || ||61,524||12.5||72,340||13.4
|-
|align=left|[[Indigenous peoples in Suriname|Amerindian]]<ref name=other>Where no separate figures are given, these people are included in ''Other''.</ref> || || ||-||-||7,287<ref name=note>{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}This is included in ''Other'' in the source</ref>||2.2||-||-|| || ||18,037||3.7||20,344||3.8
|-
|align=left|[[Chinese Surinamese|Chinese]]<ref name=other />|| || ||-||-||5,339<ref name=note /> ||1.6||-||-|| || ||8,775||1.8||7,885||1.5
|-
|align=left|[[White Surinamese|White]]<ref name=other />|| || ||-||-||4,322<ref name=note />||1.3||-||-|| || ||2,899||0.6||1,667||0.3
|-
|align=left|Other|| || ||10,095||5.1||2,986||0.9||24,155||6.4|| || ||2,264||0.5||7,166||1.3
|-
|align=left|Unknown|| || ||186||0.1||522||0.2||0||0.0|| || ||1,261||0.3||1,805||0.3
|-
|align=left|No answer|| || || || || || || || || || ||31,318||6.4||1,590||0.3
|-
|align=left|Total||colspan="2"|107,723{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}||colspan="2"|198,668||colspan="2"|324,211||colspan="2"|379,607||colspan="2"|355,240||colspan="2"|492,829||colspan="2"|541,638
|}
{{bar box
|title=Ethnic groups of Suriname<ref name="CIAPAPUANEWGUINEA">{{cite web|url= https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/suriname/|title=South America :: SURINAME|date=20 October 2022 |publisher= CIA The World Factbook}}</ref>
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|left1=Ethnic groups
|right1=percent
|float=left
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Indo-Surinamese|East Indian]]|Blue|27.4}}
{{bar percent|[[Maroon (people)|Maroon]] |Orange|21.7}}
{{bar percent|[[Creole people|Creole]]|Yellow|15.7}}
{{bar percent|[[Javanese Surinamese|Javanese]] |Green|14}}
{{bar percent|[[Multiracial people|Mixed]]|Red|13.4}}
{{bar percent|[[Indigenous peoples in Suriname|Amerindian]] |Green|3.8}}
{{bar percent|[[Chinese Surinamese|Chinese]]|Purple|1.5}}
{{bar percent|[[White Surinamese|White]]|Silver|0.3}}
{{bar percent|Other|Orange|2.5}}

}}

*The census used self-identification for ethnic classification.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://unstats.un.org/unsd/censuskb20/Attachments/Suriname-2004Census-Evaluation-GUID02905b7619cc40b49172b828033b2196.pdf |title=REPORT ON CENSUS 2004 COVERAGE EVALUATION |work=CENSUS OFFICE GENERAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS |date=2006 |page=30}}</ref>
*Amerindians are the original inhabitants of Suriname.
*East Indians, also known locally as ''[[Hindustan]]is'', are those whose ancestors emigrated from northern [[British Raj|British India]] in the latter part of the 19th century.
*Creoles are descendants from slaves from Africa.  Prior to the 2004 census, mixed-race people were counted as Creoles.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} Their ancestors were brought to the country in the 17th and 18th centuries.
*The Maroons are descendants from slaves from Africa that escaped to the interior of Suriname. Their proportion has increased considerably during the past decades, from 9% in 1964 to 22% in 2012.
*The Javanese are Asians from formerly [[Dutch East Indies|Dutch-ruled Indonesia]].
*Many Whites are descended from [[Dutch Surinamese|Dutch]] colonists.

The current population of Suriname will be different to these census figures, as the census records residents, and notes legal visitors, but does not record illegal immigrants.  According to estimates there may be as many as:
* 60,000 [[Brazilian people|Brazilian]]s (estimates varies between 20,000 and 80,000) from [[Brazil]].{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} There are also other smaller numbers of [[South America]]n nationalities.
* 40,000 Chinese,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/world/americas/11suriname.html |title=With Aid and Migrants, China Expands Its Presence in a South American Nation |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 April 2011}}</ref> with small communities of [[Koreans]], [[Japanese people|Japanese]] and [[Overseas Filipino|Filipinos]].
* 2,000 [[Arab]]/Middle Eastern (mostly [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Lebanon|Lebanese]] but also Christians from [[Syria]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]).
* 200 [[Jews]] who are identified in ethnoreligious terms.
* Suriname has large American expatriate (mostly retiree) communities (about 50,000 Americans live in Suriname).
* Also living in Suriname are Dutch citizens, some of which with a Surinamese background.

===Fertility rate by ethnic group===
The [[total fertility rate]] for Suriname as a whole was 2.53 children per woman aged 15 to 49 in 2012. [[Maroon (people)|Maroons]] had the highest fertility rate, with 4.47 children per woman. On the other hand, [[Indo-Surinamese]] had the lowest fertility with 1.78 children per woman.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;"
|+ Total fertility rate by ethnic group in 2012<ref>[https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/sources/census/wphc/Suriname/SUR-Census2012-vol1.pdf Resultaten achtste (8e) Volks- en woningtelling in Suriname (volume 1) : Demografische en sociale karakteristieken en migratie], 2013 (pdf, 7.8 MB, in Dutch); p. 24</ref>
|-
! Ethnic group !! Total fertility rate || Children ever born
|-
| [[Maroon (people)|Maroon]]s || 4.47 || 5.79
|-
| [[Surinamese Creole people|Creole]] || 2.26 || 3.06
|-
| [[Indo-Surinamese|East-Indian]] || 1.78 || 3.15
|-
| [[Javanese Surinamese|Javanese]] || 2.15 || 3.17
|-
| Mixed people || 2.12 || 2.77
|-
| Smaller minorities || 2.93 || 3.46
|-
| Unknown (mostly [[Maroon (people)|Maroons]] as well) || 3.69 || 4.91
|-
! Suriname (as whole) || 2.53 || 3.48
|}