Quality of life comparison
If you lived in Montana instead of Suriname, you would:
Economy
be 52.7% less likely to be unemployed
In Suriname, 7.8% of the labor force is unemployed as of 2025. In Montana, that number is 3.7% as of 2025.
be 35.2% less likely to live below the poverty line
In Suriname, 17.6% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Montana, however, that number is 11.4% as of 2023.
make 7.5 times more money
Suriname has a GDP per capita of $7,070 as of 2025, while in Montana, the GDP per capita is $52,945 as of 2024.
Sources: World Bank (2022–2025), Bureau of Labor Statistics (2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this
