President: Nguyen Minh Triet Secretary-general of the Communist Party : Nguyen Phu Trong
President: Yoweri Museveni
Population
91,519,289
33,640,833
Life Expectancy
72.410 years
53.450 years
Capital City
Hanoi
Largest city
Thanh pho Ho Chi Minh (population: 3,467,330)
Kampala (population: 1,353,190)
Human Development Index
0.718
0.493
GDP per capita
$3,400 US
Literacy Rate
90.3%
66.8%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7
2.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
25.8%
30.7%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
2.300%
Death Penalty
Legal
Legal
Political System
Communist state
republic
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 41.9%, Protestant 42% (Anglican 35.9%, Pentecostal 4.6%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.5%), Muslim 12.1%, other 3.1%, none 0.9% (2002 census)
Languages
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic
