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Strategic Position Score

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

41
36
Demographics
30
Resources
74
Stability
43
Education
50
Technology
14
Geopolitics
🇸🇷Suriname
Overall Score
52
Save Difficulty
Hard

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

Global Media Signal

Media attention and tone history are not available for this country yet.

Market Pulse

Equity, currency & commodity signals

No market data available for this country yet.

Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentum

5152
Economy 3631
Governance 3237
Quality of Life 6469
Innovation 4550
Stability 7874

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Index

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

30
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
71
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
48
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
Chan Santokhi
President · 2025–present
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LLM Insights

Predictive Analytics
Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Resilience

42
Pandemic58

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis39

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict35

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster37

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readiness

16.22
Early StageGlobal rank #181 / 195
Policy Capacity
0
Governance
20
AI Infrastructure
35
Public Sector Adoption
8
Development & Diffusion
14
Resilience
22

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • Public Sector Adoption
    • Policy Capacity

    What may hold it back

    Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

    Nation Profile

    Geography

    Area
    160,507.61 km²
    Population
    634K
    Density
    4/km²
    Coastline
    Coastal access

    Political System

    Government Type
    Presidential Republic
    Regime (derived)
    Authoritarian
    Elections
    Multi-party elections

    Main Industries

    OilMining (Gold/Bauxite)

    Energy

    Oil
    Natural Gas
    Coal
    Nuclear
    Hydropower
    Solar
    Wind

    Strategic Resources

    Lithium
    Rare Earths
    🟡Copper
    🟡Iron
    🟡Gold
    Silver
    🟡Fresh Water

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    44.4%
    Food Exports
    59
    Self-Sufficiency
    32

    Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

    Live Situation

    No recent news events tracked for this country yet.

    Global Influence

    Diplomatic Relations
    11
    Governance Score
    45
    Share of Tracked GDP
    0%

    Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

    Military

    18
    Active Personnel
    2K
    Reserve Personnel
    Tanks
    0
    Aircraft
    3
    Naval Assets
    17
    Aircraft Carriers
    0
    Overseas Bases
    Nuclear Weapons
    No

    Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

    Economy

    31
    ▲ Key driverUnemployment (7.6%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragInflation (Annual) (16.2%)· as of 2024

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governance

    37
    ▲ Key driverJudicial Independence (53.4)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragTime to Open a Business (66 days)· as of 2019-12-31

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

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    Quality of Life

    69
    ▲ Key driverHomicide Rate (6.51946457704576 per 100k)· as of 2023
    ▼ Key dragUniversity Graduation (2.6%)· as of 2024

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

    Click a metric with historical data to plot it. Up to 3 at once; oldest is replaced when a 4th is added.

    Innovation

    50
    ▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (87.4%)· as of 2023
    ▼ Key dragNew Business Rate (2.77244666605433 per 1k)· as of 2022

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stability

    74
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (74.1)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (74.1)· as of 2024

    Political Stability

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    Historical Trends

    World Bank
    Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable
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