Area
(km2) |
331,690 |
Population
(2000) |
78,137,000 |
Official
name of the country |
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam |
Region |
East
Asia |
Type
of economy |
Lower
income |
Gross
Domestic Product per capita (2000) |
US$401 |
Percentage
of population below the national poverty
line (1993) |
50.9 |
Human
Development Index, HDI (1999) |
0.682 |
HDI
rank out of 162 countries (1999) |
101 |
Duration
of compulsory education |
5
years |
School
life expectancy (1999) |
10.4
years |
Illiteracy
rate (2000) |
7.5 |
| Gross
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
• Pre-primary
|
40.31 |
• Primary
|
107.74 |
• Secondary
| 64.60 |
|
• Tertiary |
9.66 |
| Net
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
• Pre-primary
|
... |
• Primary
|
|
• Secondary
|
61.35 |
• Tertiary
|
... |
Sources:
United Nations Population Division and Statistics
Division (www.un.org);
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org);
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (
www.uis.unesco.org); United Nations Development
Programme (www.undp.org);
The World Bank (www.worldbank.org);
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (www.fao.org)
[.] not available.
Updated version, April 2003. |
