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 Brazilians (estimates varies between 20,000 and 80,000) from Brazil. There are also other smaller numbers of South American nationalities. 40,000 Chinese, with small communities of Koreans, Japanese and Filipinos. 2,000 Arab/Middle Eastern (mostly Christian Lebanese but also Christians from Syria and 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.
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 Brazilians (estimates varies between 20,000 and 80,000) from Brazil. There are also other smaller numbers of South American nationalities. 40,000 Chinese, with small communities of Koreans, Japanese and Filipinos. 2,000 Arab/Middle Eastern (mostly Christian Lebanese but also Christians from Syria and 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.