Suriname folk-lore

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Appendix VI. Population of Suriname by Racial Type and Religious Affilation.¹

A. Population of Paramaribo according to place of origin. (From statistics of the Netherlands Colonial Office, 1930-1931).

	for 1929		for 1930
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Europeans (born in Holland)	447	264	451	268
Europeans (born elsewhere)	334	221	336	228
Natives of Suriname^2	15 786	21 790	15 824	21 966
Netherlands East Indies	357	354	365	405
British Indians	2 107	1 978	2 113	2 013
Chinese	976	217	979	226
Others	1 145	977	1 151	993
Total	21 152	25 801	21 219	26 099
Combined Totals	46 953		47 318

B. Population of the Colony of Suriname according to racial type and religion.

(Prepared by the Royal Netherlands Colonial Institute for the Colonial Exposition, Paris, 1931.)

1. Population of Suriname according to type (estimated)

British Indians	34 000
Javanese	30 000
Chinese	1 500
Caribs and other American Indians	2 500
Bush-Negroes	18 000
Europeans (Whites, and mixtures between Whites and the above types)	4 000
Creoles of Suriname (city Negroes, Mulattoes, and other natives of Suriname, more or less colored, not belonging to one of the above groups)	60 000

1 These data were made available through the kindness of Jhr. L.C. van Panhuys. They are given here to document the discussion at the beginning of Part I of this work.

2 Although no details of the manner in which this classification was made are available, it is presumed that the figures under this heading represent the citizens of Paramaribo who are entirely or partially of Negro blood. In view of the discussion on pp. 16-23 above, their disparity in sex ratio is to be remarked.

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2. Population of Suriname according to religion (estimated)

Christians
Catholics	27 000
Protestants	45 000
Other	1 000
Mohammedans	36 000
Hindoos	24 000
Jews	500
Pagans	16 000