President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Joyce Banda
Population
91,519,289
16,323,044
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
52.310 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Lilongwe (population: 646,750)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.457
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
62.7%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
2.8
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
13%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished in practice
Political System
Communist state
multiparty democracy
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)
Christian 79.9%, Muslim 12.8%, other 3%, none 4.3% (1998 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
