President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Olafur Ragnar Grimsson Prime minister: Johanna Sigurdardottir
Population
91,519,289
313,183
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
81.000 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Reykjavik
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Reykjavik (population: 113,906)
Human Development Index
0.718
NA
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$38,500 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
99%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
8.9
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
33.3%
Wealthiest Citizens
NA
Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson ($1.0bn US)
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
7.400%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished
Political System
Communist state
constitutional republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
1 December 1918 (became a sovereign state under the Danish Crown); 17 June 1944 (from Denmark)
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)
Lutheran Church of Iceland 82.1%, Roman Catholic Church 2.4%, Reykjavik Free Church 2.3%, Hafnarfjorour Free Church 1.6%, other Christian 2.8%, other religions 0.9%, unaffiliated 2.6%, other or unspecified 5.5% (2006 est.)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken
