President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Girma Woldegiorgis
Population
91,519,289
91,195,675
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
56.560 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Addis Ababa (population: 2,757,730)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.389
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
42.7%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
2.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
21.4%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Legal
Political System
Communist state
federal republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
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)
Christian 60.8% (Orthodox 50.6%, Protestant 10.2%), Muslim 32.8%, traditional 4.6%, other 1.8% (1994 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Amarigna 32.7%, Oromigna 31.6%, Tigrigna 6.1%, Somaligna 6%, Guaragigna 3.5%, Sidamigna 3.5%, Hadiyigna 1.7%, other 14.8%, English (major foreign language taught in schools) (1994 census)
