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Lao PDR

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Lao PDR is a country. The capital city is Vientiane, located in the South-Eastern Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 230,800 km², a population of 7,664,993 people and uses the currency Lao kip. The General Secretary of the Communist Party is Bounnhang Vorachith.

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currency: Lao kip
capital city: Vientiane
region: South-Eastern Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 230,800 km²
population: 7,664,993 people
political leader: Bounnhang Vorachith (General Secretary of the Communist Party)

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expense: 10.32 % of GDP
GDP: 15,843,155,731.26 current US$
inflation: 31.23 annual %
self-employed workers: 77.47 % of total employment
tax revenue: 12.11 % of GDP
unemployment: 1.19 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 76.71 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 129,000 people
democracy score: 2.37
democracy type: Authoritarian
individuals using the Internet: 63.60 % of population
military expenditure: 0.19 % of GDP
net migration: -10,003 people
press freedom: 1.21
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 21.95 %
birth rate: 21.46 per 1,000 people
death rate: 6.20 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 68.88 current US$
health expenditure: 2.74 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.14 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.31 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 69
suicide mortality rate: 5.40 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 20,310.00 km²
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 26.02 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
fertility rate: 2.45 births per woman
forest area: 165,265 km²
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 42.06 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 20.30
methane emissions: 12.93 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.13 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 3,813,122 people
male population: 3,851,871 people
renewable energy consumption: 49.20 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 228,354.38 km²
rural population: 4,733,363 people
urban land area: 542.17 km²
urban population: 2,931,630 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.00 % of total population

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