President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
Population
1,996,617
91,519,289
Life Expectancy
77.480 years
72.410 years
Capital City
Ljubljana
Hanoi
Largest city
Ljubljana (population: 255,115)
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Human Development Index
0.923
0.718
GDP per capita
$29,000 US
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
99.7%
90.3%
Corruption Perception Index
6.7
2.7
Percentage of Women in Parliament
10%
25.8%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
11.800%
2.300%
Death Penalty
Abolished
Legal
Political System
parliamentary republic
Communist state
Independence date
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)
2 September 1945 (from France)
Religions
Catholic 57.8%, Muslim 2.4%, Orthodox 2.3%, other Christian 0.9%, unaffiliated 3.5%, other or unspecified 23%, none 10.1% (2002 census)
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
Slovenian 91.1%, Serbo-Croatian 4.5%, other or unspecified 4.4% (2002 census)
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Exports
manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, chemicals, food
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.67 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), tolars per US dollar - 190.85 (2006), 192.71 (2005), 192.38 (2004) note: Slovenia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2007
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
1.700%
2.500%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
5
1
Location
Central Europe, eastern Alps bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Austria and Croatia
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia
Area
20,273 km sq
331,210 km sq
Coastline
47 km
3,444 km
Climate
Mediterranean climate on the coast, continental climate with mild to hot summers and cold winters in the plateaus and valleys to the east
tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March)
