President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Lee Myung-bak
Population
91,519,289
48,860,500
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
79.300 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Seoul
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Seoul (population: 10,349,300)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.928
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$32,100 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
97.9%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
NA
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
13.7%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
3.400%
Death Penalty
Legal
NA
Political System
Communist state
republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
15 August 1945 (from Japan)
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 26.3% (Protestant 19.7%, Roman Catholic 6.6%), Buddhist 23.2%, other or unknown 1.3%, none 49.3% (1995 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Korean, English widely taught in junior high and high school
