Guinea-Bissau and Vietnam Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Vietnam
Leader
Interim president: Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo	President: Truong Tan Sang
Population
1,660,870	92,477,857
Life Expectancy
49.500 years	72.650 years
Capital City
	Hanoi
Largest city
Bissau (population: 388,028)	Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Human Development Index
0.383	0.718
GDP per capita
	$3,500 US
Literacy Rate
42.4%	90.3%
Corruption Perception Index
1.9	2.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
14%	25.8%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	4.500%
Death Penalty
Abolished	Legal

Political System
republic	Communist state
Independence date
	2 September 1945 (from France)
Religions
Muslim 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 10%	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
Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages	Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Exports
	crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes
External Debt
	$41,850,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	dong (VND) per US dollar - 16,548.3 (2008 est.), 16,119 (2007), 15,983 (2006), 15,746 (2005), NA (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	2.500%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
0	1
Location
Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal	Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia
Area
36,125 km sq	331,210 km sq
Coastline
350 km	3,444 km
Climate
tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds	tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March)

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Guinea-Bissau vs Vietnam