Mr. Ong, from Shanghai, tills his neat plots of ground to prepare to plant in a manner typical of China where farms are small family plots. Suriname, with its wealth of space, and low population density is like heaven to people like Mr. Ong who come from a country with 1.3 billion mouths to feed. According to the CIA World Factbook, China has a population density of 136.12 people per square km (352.54 ppl/sq. mile) versus Suriname which has 3 people per square km (7 ppl/sq. mile). Suriname's population density is 190th of 192 countries listed and is comparative to Mongolia and Namibia, largely desert countries populated by nomads. Its total population is only 560,157.