Country
Vietnam Haiti
Leader
Population
92,477,857 9,893,934
Life Expectancy
72.650 years 62.850 years
Capital City
Hanoi Port-au-Prince
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330) Port-au-Prince (population: 1,234,740)
Human Development Index
0.718 0.521 GDP per capita $3,500 US $1,300 US
Literacy Rate
90.3% 52.9%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7 1.4
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8% 5.2% Wealthiest Citizens Unemployment Rate 4.500% 40.600%
Death Penalty
Legal Abolished
Political System
Communist state republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France) 1 January 1804 (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) Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3% note: roughly half of the population practices voodoo Languages Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) French (official), Creole (official) Exports crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee External Debt $41,850,000,000 $ $1,125,000,000 US Exchange Rate dong (VND) per US dollar - 16,548.3 (2008 est.), 16,119 (2007), 15,983 (2006), 15,746 (2005), NA (2004) gourdes (HTG) per US dollar - 39.216 (2008 est.), 37.138 (2007), 40.232 (2006), 40.449 (2005), 38.352 (2004) Military Budget as percentage of GDP 2.500% 0.400% Beijing Olympics Medal Count 1 0 Location Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic Area 331,210 km sq 27,750 km sq Coastline 3,444 km 1,771 km Climate tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March) tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds
