Selected statistics about Viet Nam (Updated October 2010)

POPULATION

• Total (2009):  85.85 million
• Urban (2009): 29.6%
• Rural (2009): 70.4%
• Annual population growth rate (1999-2009):  1.2%
•  Sex ratio at birth (boys born per 100 girls born, 2009): 110
  
• Proportion of population under 15 years of age: 24.5%
• Proportion of population aged 15-64: 69.1%
  
• Population density (persons per square kilometre, 2009):  257.00
• Land area (square kilometres): 329,314

Source: Viet Nam General Statistics Office 2010

• Life expectancy at birth (2005-2010)
  Men: 72.3 years
  Women: 76.2 years

• Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births (2009): 16 
  
• Child malnutrition rate (percentage underweight, 2007): 27%
• Fertility rate (births per woman, 2009): 2.03
• Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 live births, 2009): 69

POVERTY

• Poverty rate (percentage poor, national poverty line, 2009): 12%
• Food poverty line (percentage poor households, 2006 est.): 6.7%

ECONOMY

• GDP per capita (2009) : US$1010
• Real growth of GDP (2009): 5.3%
• Annual average GDP growth rate (1994-2007): 7.04%
  
 
• Exchange rate (July 2010) US$1 = Dong 19,000
• Increase in consumer price index (first six months of 2010): 8.757%

Sources: GSO 2010, World Bank 2010, UNdata 2010

• Adult literacy rate (2009) - total:  94%
• Net primary school ratio (2005) – total:  88%
• Net lower secondary school ratio (2005):  69%
• Net upper secondary school ratio (2004):  55%

ENVIRONMENT

• Threatened species (2009):  417
• Forested area (% of land area, 2007):   43.3     
  
• CO2 emission estimates (1000 metric tons and metric tons per capita, 2006):  106,055/1.2     
  
• Energy consumption per capita (kilograms oil equivalent, 2007):    386.0

Source: UNdata 2010

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• Human development index (Ranking out of 182 countries, 2007): 116
• Gender-related development index (Ranking out of 109 countries, 2007): 62
• Human poverty index (Ranking out of 135 developing countries, 2007): 55 

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