President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
Population
3,179,997
91,519,289
Life Expectancy
68.630 years
72.410 years
Capital City
Ulaanbaatar
Hanoi
Largest city
Ulaanbaatar (population: 844,818)
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Human Development Index
0.72
0.718
GDP per capita
$4,800 US
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
97.8%
90.3%
Corruption Perception Index
3
2.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
4.2%
25.8%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
9.900%
2.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Legal
Political System
mixed parliamentary/presidential
Communist state
Independence date
11 July 1921 (from China)
2 September 1945 (from France)
Religions
Buddhist Lamaist 50%, Shamanist and Christian 6%, Muslim 4%, none 40% (2004)
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
Khalkha Mongol 90%, Turkic, Russian (1999)
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
