President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
Population
10,767,827
91,519,289
Life Expectancy
80.050 years
72.410 years
Capital City
Athens
Hanoi
Largest city
Athens (population: 729,137)
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Human Development Index
0.947
0.718
GDP per capita
$26,600 US
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
96%
90.3%
Corruption Perception Index
4.7
2.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
14.7%
25.8%
Wealthiest Citizens
Spiro Latsis & family ($3.8bn US)
NA
Unemployment Rate
17.300%
2.300%
Death Penalty
Abolished
Legal
Political System
parliamentary republic
Communist state
Independence date
1829 (from the Ottoman Empire)
2 September 1945 (from France)
Religions
Greek Orthodox 98%, Muslim 1.3%, other 0.7%
Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census)
Languages
Greek 99% (official), other 1% (includes English and French)
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Exports
food and beverages, manufactured goods, petroleum products, chemicals, textiles
