Lao PDR

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Key facts

  • Currency: Lao kip
  • Capital city: Vientiane
  • Region: South-Eastern Asia
  • Continent: Asia
  • Land area: 230,800 km²
  • Population: 7,529,475
  • Political Leader: Bounnhang Vorachith (General Secretary of the Communist Party)

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Metrics

Business

GDP 15,468,800,000.00 current US$
Inflation 22.96 annual %
Self-employed 78.86 % of total employment
Unemployment 3.82 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 78.31 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 20,310.00 km²
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 19,178.90 kt
Fertility rate 2.50 births per woman
Forest area 165,610 km²
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 10,918.70 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 20.10 years
Methane emissions 8,011.31 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 3,143.07 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 3,734,796
Male Population 3,794,678
Renewable energy consumption 50.01 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 228,354.00 km²
Rural population 4,698,995
Urban land area 542.17 km²
Urban population 2,830,480
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 0.00 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 21.97 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.61 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 68.29 current US$
Health expenditure 2.69 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.11 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.50 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 68 years
Suicide mortality rate 5.40 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 62.00 % of population
Net migration -9,999
Press freedom 1.21


Politics

Armed forces personnel 129,000
Democracy score 2.37
Democracy type Authoritarian
Military expenditure 0.19 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 21.95 %


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Coordinates: [18°0′N, 105°0′N]
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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 23 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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