Country comparison Philippines : Vietnam

General information

	Philippines	Vietnam
Region:	Southeast Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	300,000 km²	331,230 km²
Official language:	Tagalog	Vietnamese
Government form:	Presidential republic	Republic (communist one-party system)
Independent since:	1946 AD	1945 AD
Capital:	Manila	Hanoi

Population

	Philippines	Vietnam
Population:	109,581,000	97,339,000
Inhabitants/km²:	365.3	293.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 67 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 76 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 24.1 years	Ø 31.9 years
Birthrate:	20.17 ‰	16.45 ‰
Deathrate:	5.92 ‰	6.38 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.75 ‰	-0.23 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Philippines	Vietnam
Political stability:	54	67
Civil rights:	39	35
Health:	45	54
Climate:	49	52
Cost of Living:	46	50
Popularity:	31	33

Economy

	Philippines	Vietnam
Currency:	Philippine Peso (1 PHP = 100 Centavos)	Dong (1 VND =10 Hào = 100 Xu)
Unemployment rate:	2.4 %	2.2 %
Inflation rate:	2.64 %	1.83 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	41.26 %	34.45 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	43.10 %	37.60 %
Average income:	3,430 US$	2,650 US$
Corruption index:	33 (bad)	39 (bad)

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	361,489 M US$	3.30 M US$	271,158 M US$	2.79 M US$
Gross national product:	375,998 M US$	3.43 M US$	257,927 M US$	2.65 M US$
Exported goods:	87,795 M US$	0.80 M US$	290,192 M US$	2.98 M US$
Imported goods:	127,403 M US$	1.16 M US$	269,901 M US$	2.77 M US$

Infrastructure

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	216,387 km	1.97 km	195,468 km	2.01 km
Railways:	77 km	0.00 km	2,481 km	0.03 km
Waterways:	3,219 km	0.03 km	47,130 km	0.48 km
Harbours:	1,805	0.016	1,926	0.020
Airports:	247	0.002	45	0.000

Energy balance

	PHL: total	per 1000 inh.	VNM: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	78.30 bn kWh	714,539.38 kWh	143.20 bn kWh	1.47 m kWh
Energy production:	86.59 bn kWh	790,191.12 kWh	158.20 bn kWh	1.63 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	713.00 m kWh	7,324.95 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	2.73 bn kWh	28,077.25 kWh
CO2 emissions:	142.24 m t	1,298.03 t	257.86 m t	2,649.10 t

Telecommunication

	Philippines	Vietnam
International dialing:	+63	+84
Internet domain:	.ph	.vn

	PHL total	PHL per 1000 inh.	VNM total	VNM per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	4,255,808	39	3,205,775	33
Mobile cellulars:	167,322,432	1527	138,934,626	1427
Internet server:	425,812	4	189,553	2
Internet users:	51,371,613	469	68,419,290	703
Broadband Internet:	7,936,574	72	16,699,249	172

Healthcare system

	Philippines	Vietnam
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.99	2.60
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.28	0.82
Diabetes:	7.1 %	6.0 %
Malaria:	0.2 %	0.1 %
HIV:	0.29 %	0.10 %
Tuberculosis:	5.4 %	1.8 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	86.0 %	91.0 %
Smokers:	23.4 %	25.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Philippines and Vietnam

	Philippines	Vietnam
Daytime temperatures:	31.9 °C	28.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.9 °C	22.0 °C
Water temperature:	27.5 °C	26.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	81 %	80 %
Rain days:	11.3	9.2
Sunshine hours per day:	6.3	5.2

Native languages

	Philippines	Vietnam
Vietnamese:	n/a	86.8 %
Tagalog:	29.3 %	n/a
Cebuano:	23.3 %	n/a
Ilocano:	9.3 %	n/a
Hiligaynon:	9.1 %	n/a
Bicol:	5.7 %	n/a
Waray-waray:	3.8 %	n/a
Pampango:	3.0 %	n/a
English:	2.2 %	n/a
Kapampangan:	2.2 %	n/a
Chinese:	1.9 %	1.4 %
Pangasinan:	1.8 %	n/a
Tho:	n/a	1.8 %
Thai:	n/a	1.6 %
Muong:	n/a	1.5 %
Maguindanao:	1.4 %	n/a
Khmer:	n/a	1.4 %
Maranao:	1.3 %	n/a
Nung:	n/a	1.1 %
Kinaray-a:	1.0 %	n/a
Tausug:	0.9 %	n/a
Man:	n/a	0.7 %
Surigaonon:	0.6 %	n/a
Chavacano:	0.6 %	n/a
other:	2.6 %	3.7 %

Religions

	Philippines	Vietnam
Christianity:	92.5 %	8.3 %
Nondenominational:	0.1 %	73.2 %
Buddhism:	n/a	12.2 %
Islam:	5.0 %	0.1 %
Caodaism:	n/a	4.8 %
Hoahaoism:	n/a	1.4 %
other:	2.4 %	0.0 %