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Vietnam - Asia



Population  PopulationTop of page
InhabitantsLife expectancy
85,262,356 (July 2007 est.)total population: 71.07 years
male: 68.27 years
female: 74.08 years (2007 est.)
Ethnic groupsReligions
Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census)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)
LanguagesLiteracy
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.3%
male: 93.9%
female: 86.9% (2002)


Government  GovernmentTop of page
Government typeCapital
Communist state Hanoi
IndependanceNational day
2 September 1945 (from France)Independence Day, 2 September (1945)
ConstitutionLegal system
15 April 1992based on communist legal theory and French civil law system


Economy  EconomyTop of page
GDP (purchasing power parity)Growth rate
$48.26 billion (2006 est.)7.8% (2006 est.)
GDP per inhabitantUnemployment rate
$3,100 (2006 est.)2% (2006 est.)
Population below poverty lineInflation rate
19.5% (2004 est.)7.5% (2006 est.)
ExportsImports
$39.92 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)$39.16 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)
Reserves of foreign exchange and goldCurrency
$11.92 billion (2006 est.)dong (VND)
Military expenditures
2.5% (2005 est.)


Geography  GeographyTop of page
LocationArea
Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia 329,560 sq km
ClimateNatural resources
tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (May to September) and warm, dry season (October to March)phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower


Communication  CommunicationTop of page
CellularsInternet code
9.593 million (2005).vn
Internet hostsInternet users
12,114 (2006)13.1 million (2006)


Transportation  TransportationTop of page
AirportsRailways (in km)
32 (2006)2,600 km
Roadways (in km)Pipelines (in km)
222,179 km condensate/gas 432 km; gas 163 km; oil 50 km; refined products 206 km (2006)