President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Mohamed Nasheed
Population
91,519,289
394,451
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
74.690 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Male
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Male (population: 84,972)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.749
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$8,800 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
96.3%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
2.8
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
12%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
14.500%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished in practice
Political System
Communist state
republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
26 July 1965 (from UK)
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
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials
