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 Vietnam
All information: Vietnam
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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:71.1 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:79.4 years 81.1 years
Birthrate:16.98 ‰ 11.80 ‰
Deathrate:6.25 ‰ 8.50 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.30 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:70 75
Civil rights:25 97
Health:47 68
Security:98 63
Climate:53 64
Cost of Living:83 11
Popularity:68 92


Economy

Currency: Dong (1 VND = 10 Hào = 100 Xu) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:1.9 % 3.9 %
Inflation rate:2.80 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:58.00 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:37.60 % 36.60 %
Average income:2,108 € 56,347 €
Corruption index:33 (bad) 71 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:219,039 Mio €2.29 M € 18,351,356 M €56.09 M €
Gross national product:201,770 Mio €2.11 M € 18,433,513 M €56.34 M €
Exported goods:230,895 M €2.42 M € 2,234,305 M €6.83 M €
Imported goods:219,408 M €2.30 M € 2,794,991 M €8.54 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 3,6730.011
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:4,296,30145 109,961,000336
Mobile phones:140,639,1401,472 422,000,0001,290
Internet server:189,5532 505,000,0001,544
Internet users:67,212,320703 285,506,302873



Climate

Detailed info for: Vietnam and United States

Daytime temperatures:29.4 °C 18.7 °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:5.4 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 %