Vietnam Facts

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We have our home study tomorrow. So, I am picking up the house and getting it ready for inspection. However, to take a break from that, I am researching Vietnam. I thought I would share some facts...

Vietnam Facts According to the CIA World Factbook

Country name:
conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam
conventional short form: Vietnam
local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam
local short form: Viet Nam abbreviation: SRV
Government type:
Communist state
Capital:
Hanoi (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
Population:
84,402,966 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 27% (male 11,826,457/female 10,983,069) 15-64 years: 67.1% (male 28,055,941/female 28,614,553) 65 years and over: 5.8% (male 1,924,562/female 2,998,384) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 25.9 years male: 24.8 years female: 27.1 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.02% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
16.86 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Nationality:
Vietnamese (singular and plural)
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)

More facts can be found at: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/vm.html#Govt