Vietnam 
Facts
Population: 85,262,356 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 26.3% (male 11,617,032/female 10,784,264)
15-64 years: 67.9% (male 28,711,464/female 29,205,498)
65 years and over: 5.8% (male 1,919,138/female 3,024,960) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.004% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 16.63 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 6.19 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.4 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.07 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.077 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.983 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.634 male(s)/female
total population: 0.982 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 24.37 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 24.76 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 23.94 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71.07 years
male: 68.27 years
female: 74.08 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.89 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.4% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 220,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 9,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural)
adjective: Vietnamese.
Ethnic groups: Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census).
Religions: Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census).
Languages: Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.3%
male: 93.9%
female: 86.9% (2002 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $262.8 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 8.2% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 20.1%
industry: 41.8%
services: 38.1% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 44.58 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 56.8%
industry: 37%
services: 6.2% (July 2005).
Population below poverty line: 19.5% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.6%
highest 10%: 29.9% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.5% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 2% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $15.42 billion
expenditures: $16.63 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.8 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: paddy rice, coffee, rubber, cotton, tea, pepper, soybeans, cashews, sugar cane, peanuts, bananas; poultry; fish, seafood.
Industries: food processing, garments, shoes, machine-building; mining, coal, steel; cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, paper.
Industrial production growth rate: 11.3% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 40.11 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 37.3 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).
Exports: $39.92 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes.
Exports - partners: US 18.3%, Japan 13.6%, China 9%, Australia 7.9%, Singapore 5.6% (2005).
Imports: $39.16 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles.
Imports - partners: China 15.6%, Singapore 12.4%, Taiwan 11.7%, Japan 11.1%, South Korea 9.7%, Thailand 6.5% (2005).
Debt - external: $21.86 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $2.8 billion in credits and grants pledged by the 2006 Consultative Group meeting in Hanoi (2004).
Currency (code): dong (VND).
Exchange rates: dong per US dollar - 15,983 (2006), 15,746 (2005), (2004), 15,510 (2003), 15,280 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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World Affairs Journal
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Vietnam in the News
A film that has shaken audiences with its potent combination of sex, drugs, and HIV/AIDS, set against a stark portrayal of the lives of young prostitutes, is just as effectively forcing Vietnam’s film industry to take a long, hard look at itself.
Vietnamese journalist and pro-democracy advocate Nguyen Vu Binh has disappeared following the publication of an essay critical of the Vietnamese government's settlement of a border dispute with China. Associate editor Rachel S. Taylor reports.
An improvement in the price of coffee beans is giving hope to Vietnamese farmers who have suffered steady losses over the last five years despite consecutive bumper crops.
The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan is no Vietnam, yet there are real parallels: a terrain that favors the foes, a porous border impossible to police, and dependence on local forces whose reliability is far from certain.
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