President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Ivo Josipovic Prime minister : Zoran Milanovic
Population
91,519,289
4,480,043
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
75.990 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Zagreb
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Zagreb - Centar (population: 800,000)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.862
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$18,400 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
98.1%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
4.4
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
20.9%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
17.700%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished
Political System
Communist state
presidential/parliamentary democracy
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)
Religions
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)
Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)