President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President : Ollanta Humala
Population
91,519,289
29,549,517
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
72.730 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Lima
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Lima (population: 7,737,000)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.788
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
$10,200 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
87.7%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
3.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
29.2%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
7.900%
Death Penalty
Legal
Abolished except for special circumstances
Political System
Communist state
constitutional republic
Independence date
2 September 1945 (from France)
28 July 1821 (from Spain)
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 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3% (2003 est.)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages
