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 Vietnam
All information: Vietnam
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:330,967 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:94,569,000 323,128,000
Official language:Vietnamese English

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Politik

Government form:Republic (communist one-party system) Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1945 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Hanoi Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:285.7 32.9
Life expectancy males:71.5 years 76.3 years
Life expectancy females:80.9 years 81.2 years
Birthrate:16.69 ‰ 12.40 ‰
Deathrate:5.82 ‰ 8.40 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.30 % 3.90 %


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)
 
Political stability:69 74
Civil rights:27 99
Health:48 70
Security:98 67
Climate:53 65
Cost of Living:49 33
Popularity:58 92


Economy

Currency: Dong (1 VND = 10 Hào = 100 Xu) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:2.1 % 4.4 %
Inflation rate:3.24 % 1.26 %
Cost of Living:56.20 % 110.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:38.10 % 43.80 %
Average income:1,823 € 50,323 €
corruption index:35 (bad) 75 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:181,709 Mio €1.92 M € 16,486,213 M €51.02 M €
Gross national product:172,460 Mio €1.82 M € 16,260,820 M €50.32 M €
Exported goods:167,197 M €1.77 M € 1,954,564 M €6.05 M €
Imported goods:159,572 M €1.69 M € 2,401,403 M €7.43 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:195,468 km2.07 km 6,586,610 km20.38 km
Railways:2,600 km0.03 km 293,564 km0.91 km
Waterways:47,130 km0.50 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:5790.006 3930.001
Airports:450.000 13,5130.042


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:134.30 bn kWh1.42 m kWh 3,911.00 bn kWh12.10 m kWh
Energy production:146.90 bn kWh1.55 m kWh 4,088.00 bn kWh12.65 m kWh
Energy export:811.00 m kWh8,575.74 kWh 9.70 bn kWh30,003.64 kWh
Energy imports:2.39 bn kWh25,304.26 kWh 80.66 bn kWh249,622.82 kWh
CO2 emissions:166.91 m t1,764.96 t 5.25 bn t16,260.70 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+84 +1
Internet domain:.vn .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:5,598,01759 121,530,000376
Mobile phones:120,600,2351,275 416,684,0001,290
Internet server:189,5532 505,000,0001,563
Internet users:43,106,012456 246,147,996762



Climate

Detailed info for: Vietnam and United States

Daytime temperatures:29.4 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.6 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:26.8 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:80 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:22 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:110.4 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:5.3 7.2


Native languages

Vietnamese:86.8 % 0.2 %
English:n/a 82.1 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Tho:1.8 % n/a
Thai:1.6 % n/a
Muong:1.5 % n/a
Chinese:1.4 % 0.6 %
Khmer:1.4 % n/a
Nung:1.1 % n/a
German:n/a 0.7 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Man:0.7 % n/a
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
other:3.7 % 3.0 %


Religions

Christianity:8.3 % 78.5 %
nondenominational:73.2 % n/a
Buddhism:12.2 % 0.7 %
Caodaism:4.8 % n/a
Jewry:n/a 1.7 %
Hoahaoism:1.4 % n/a
Islam:0.1 % 0.6 %
other:0.0 % 18.5 %