Dealing with construction … Score 0-15 Building control in Suriname
Suriname: Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index was 43.33 in 2019. ▬ Flat
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Suriname, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Suriname recorded 43.33 for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Suriname ranks 160th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Suriname, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 43.33 | — |
| 2015 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 43.33 | +0.0% |
Suriname compared with similar countries
- Suriname's 43.33 is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 73.33, 59% of the median. (56 countries reporting)
- Suriname's 43.33 is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 60, 72% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Suriname
More private sector data for Suriname
- Merchandise trade 108.1% (2025)
- Food imports 15.5% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 70.7% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 2.20 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 6.4% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 9.1% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 2.69 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 4,204 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.5947 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 81.27 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Suriname?
- Dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Suriname was 43.33 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Suriname?
- The highest recorded value was 43.33 in 2014.
- What is the lowest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Suriname?
- The lowest recorded value was 43.33 in 2014.
- How does Suriname rank for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index?
- Suriname ranks 160th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index rising or falling in Suriname?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Suriname data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index (0-15) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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The score for the building quality control index benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.