President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
Head of state: Prince Hans-Adam II
Population
91,519,289
36,713
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
81.500 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Schaan (population: 5,748)
Human Development Index
0.718
0
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
100%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
NA
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
24%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished
Political System
Communist state
constitutional monarchy
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)
Roman Catholic 76.2%, Protestant 7%, unknown 10.6%, other 6.2% (June 2002)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
