Maldives vs Suriname: Economic Indicators Comparison

Maldives with a GDP of $5.3B ranked the 155th largest economy in the world, while Suriname ranked 163rd with $3.6B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Maldives and Suriname ranked 22nd vs 174th and 72nd vs 99th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Maldives	Suriname
GDP	$5.3B	$3.6B
GDP growth, 1 year	7%	2%
GDP growth, 5-years average	6.3%	-1%
Population	436k	563k
GDP per capita	$10k	$6.2k
GDP per capita growth	2.89%	0.93%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	10.39	3
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.67	0.4
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$22k	$15k
GNI, Atlas method	$4.8B	$3B
GNI per capita	$9.3k	$5.2k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$7.3B	$8B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$14k	$14k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Maldives	Suriname
Income Tax Rate	0%	38%
Corporate Tax Rate	0%	36%
Inflation, consumer prices	1.5%	6.9%
Inflation, GDP deflator	5.3%	14.4%
Unemployment	6.1%	7.6%
Economic Freedom Index	56.5	49.5
Personal Freedom Index	7.2	7.79
Human Freedom Index	7.1	7.19
Property Rights Index	48.5	45.6
Judical Effectiveness Index	31.7	19.5
Business Freedom Index	78.7	48.2
Fiscal Health Index	42.9	10.3
Labor Freedom Index	70.6	71.9
Investment Freedom Index	35	40
Financial Freedom Index	30	30
Trade Freedom Index	61	69.8
Monetary Freedom Index	77	76.1
Government Spending Index	67.9	74.8
Tax Burden Index	95.8	70.5
Government Integrity Index	39.2	36.9
Corruption Perceptions Index	31	43
Life expectancy at birth, years	78.3	71.5
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	2.3	22.8
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	0.9	14.5
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	0.8	5.5
International tourism, number of arrivals	1.5M	278k

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Maldives	Suriname
Central government debt, % of GDP	61.5%	69.6%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	48%	N/A
External debt stocks	$2.3B	N/A
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	36.4%	N/A
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	9.2%	N/A
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	N/A	22.9%
Gross savings, % of GDP	N/A	50.3%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	N/A	36.2%
Total reserves including gold	$722.1M	$580.8M
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$538.5M	$131M

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Maldives	Suriname
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	69.1%	52.5%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	77.2%	38.4%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$1.4B	-$118M
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	25.7%	N/A
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$72.6M	$16.4M
Personal remittances received	$4.2M	$519k
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	12.9%	36.2%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	5.6%	9%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$3.5M	$8.6M
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$5.6M	$75k
Expense, % of GDP	25.1%	N/A
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	32.7%	29%