Conditions for emigration to Suriname

Throughout the world, population is undoubtedly an important potential factor to judge a country's national strength, and the population gap between different countries may be very large. For example, the land area of Bangladesh and Cambodia is147,500 square kilometers, while the latter is 18. 1 square kilometers. The gap is not too big, but the population of Cambodia is only150,000, while that of Bangladesh is as high as1650,000. As for Iceland, whose area has just reached100000 square kilometers, it is sparsely populated because of its cold climate. The total population of the country is less than 350,000, not even a fraction of Cambodia.

▲ Street in Seoul, South Korea

Another example is South Korea, our maritime neighbor, with a land area of 654.38+10,000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to Jiangsu Province in China, but its total population has exceeded 5 1 10,000. According to this ratio, South Korea's population is still very dense. However, in the north of South America, there is such a country, whose land area is more than half of that of South Korea, reaching 654.38+0.638 million square kilometers. However, this country has only more than 500,000 nationals, which is only 1% of that of South Korea. This figure looks amazing-it can be said that South America has a humid climate, abundant precipitation and fertile land. In addition, there are many kinds of mineral deposits and rich living conditions. Not as extreme as Iceland, it can even be said to be very suitable for human habitation. Why can't the population get up?

▲ Map of Suriname

This country is Suriname. Speaking of it, there are three main reasons why Suriname is vast and sparsely populated. First of all, the local aborigines, that is, Indians, were almost slaughtered by Dutch colonists. Suriname was originally the ancestral home of Indians, who were all over the jungle of Suriname and had a large population. But in the era of great navigation, everything here has changed dramatically. In A.D. 1499, Spanish explorers discovered this place and officially declared it as Spanish territory in 1593.

▲ Old photos of Indians

But the Spanish didn't really become the owners of this land-/kloc-In the first half of the 7th century, British colonists officially settled here, and later the Netherlands obtained the sovereignty over Suriname from the British through the Treaty of Brayda, so Suriname was called "Dutch Guiana". After the Dutch came here, they brutally suppressed the local residents in order to plunder resources and property, resulting in the local Indians being almost killed. Now after more than ten generations, there are only more than 20 thousand people.

▲ Surinamese women (Indonesian)

Secondly, Suriname has a small number of immigrants. At present, among the main ethnic groups in Suriname, Indians account for 33% of the total population, followed by Creoles (especially the descendants of African slaves in Suriname) accounting for 3 1%, and Indonesians account for 15%. It can be seen that these three ethnic groups are all related to colonial countries. During the British occupation, the British brought a large number of Indians. During the Dutch rule, Indonesians were introduced from Java, and both sides brought in slaves. It stands to reason that the number of these three types of people is not small, but they are all laborers and slaves after all, and their living conditions are poor, so the survival rate is very low. Another example is/kloc-China indentured laborers introduced in the 9th century. Tens of thousands of people came, but only 2,000 people survived. Today, more than 20,000 China people in Suriname are basically descendants of 2,000 survivors at that time, including Hendrick Chin A Sen, the second president and prime minister of Suriname. Apart from these three types of immigrants, there are no large-scale immigrants in Suriname, so the population cannot explode.

▲ Surinam primeval rainforest

Third, Suriname's geographical conditions limit population growth. Although the climate is suitable, the natural conditions are not ideal-most of Suriname's land belongs to tropical grasslands and plateaus, which is not conducive to the rapid and large-scale population reproduction. This is a bit like Brazil, where most areas are plateaus, so the population is mainly concentrated in coastal areas. The same is true in Suriname, where most people live in coastal areas. The population of Paramaribo alone accounts for 60% of the national population. After World War II, another 6.5438+0.8 million people from Suriname moved to the Netherlands, so there are naturally fewer people in this country.

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Biography: Suriname