[5] [6] The Population Departement of the United Nations prepared the following estimates for Suriname.

According to estimates there may be as many as: The total fertility rate for Suriname as a whole was 2.53 children per woman aged 15 to 49 in 2012.

Hakka and Cantonese is spoken by Surinamese Chinese, mainly as a second language after Dutch.

Beginning in the 1990s new migrants from China moved to Suriname, and Putonghua, during circa 2004–2014, became the main Chinese lingua franca in the country.

French is spoken by some Maroons due to the cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese mainly by immigrants from Brazil and Portugal, and Spanish due to immigrants from, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.