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 Vietnam
All information: Vietnam
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:331,230 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:95,540,000 327,167,000
Official language:Vietnamese English

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Government

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 km²:288.4 33.3
Life expectancy males:71.8 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:81.0 years 81.1 years
Birthrate:16.45 ‰ 11.80 ‰
Deathrate:5.84 ‰ 8.50 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.30 ‰ 3.80 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:70 70
Civil rights:25 97
Health:50 69
Security:98 63
Climate:52 65
Cost of Living:49 32
Popularity:67 95


Economy

Currency: Dong (1 VND = 10 Hào = 100 Xu) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:1.9 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:3.54 % 2.44 %
Cost of Living:54.30 % 108.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:37.80 % 43.80 %
Average income:2,032 € 53,218 €
Corruption index:33 (bad) 71 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:207,408 Mio €2.17 M € 17,353,175 M €53.04 M €
Gross national product:194,272 Mio €2.03 M € 17,411,191 M €53.22 M €
Exported goods:192,417 M €2.01 M € 2,117,489 M €6.47 M €
Imported goods:185,962 M €1.95 M € 2,644,259 M €8.08 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:195,468 km2.05 km 6,586,610 km20.13 km
Railways:2,600 km0.03 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:47,130 km0.49 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:1,8630.019 3,6920.011
Airports:450.000 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:143.20 bn kWh1.50 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.93 m kWh
Energy production:158.20 bn kWh1.66 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.52 m kWh
Energy export:713.00 m kWh7,462.81 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,633.14 kWh
Energy imports:2.73 bn kWh28,605.70 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,271.51 kWh
CO2 emissions:166.91 m t1,747.02 t 5.25 bn t16,059.91 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+84 +1
Internet domain:.vn .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:4,385,42746 119,902,000366
Mobile phones:120,016,1811,256 391,600,0001,197
Internet server:189,5532 505,000,0001,544
Internet users:47,358,511496 246,136,707752



Climate

Detailed info for: Vietnam and United States

Daytime temperatures:29.4 °C 18.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:22.6 °C 7.1 °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 1.8 %
Hoahaoism:1.4 % n/a
Islam:0.1 % 0.6 %
other:0.0 % 18.4 %