President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
Head of state: King Abdullah II
Population
91,519,289
6,508,887
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
80.180 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Amman
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Amman (population: 1,275,860)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.769
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$6,000 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
89.9%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
5.1
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
8.5%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
12.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Legal
Political System
Communist state
constitutional monarchy
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
25 May 1946 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration)
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)
Sunni Muslim 92%, Christian 6% (majority Greek Orthodox, but some Greek and Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox, and Protestant denominations), other 2% (several small Shia Muslim and Druze populations) (2001 est.)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Arabic (official), English widely understood among upper and middle classes
