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Source: The World Factbook
| Area | 329,560 sq km |
| Population | 81,624,716 [03] |
| GDP in US$ billion | 35.11 [02] |
| GDP: PPP in US$ billion | 203.90 [03] |
| GDP - PPP per capita in US$ | 2,500 [03] |
| Reserves including Gold in US$ billion in 2002 | 15.28 |
| Capital | Hanoi |
| Monetary unit | dong (VND) |
| Local currency to US$ on 9 Feb 2004 | 0.000064 |
| Literacy (percentage) | 94 |
| Location | Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin, and South China Sea, alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia |
| Geographic coordinates | 16 00 N, 106 00 E |
| Climate | tropical in south; monsoonal in north with hot, rainy season (mid-May to mid-September) and warm, dry season (mid-October to mid-March) |
| Government | Communist state |
| Languages | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Ethnicity/race | Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese, Hmong, Thai, Khmer, Cham, mountain groups |
| Religions | Buddhist, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), indigenous beliefs, Muslim |
| Industries | food processing, garments, shoes, machine building, mining, cement, chemical fertilizer, glass, tires, oil, coal, steel, paper. |
| Natural resources | phosphates, forests, coal. |
| Exports (billion US$) | 19.88 [03] |
| crude oil, marine products, rice, coffee, rubber, tea, garments, shoes. | |
| Imports (billion US$) | 22.50 [03] |
| machinery and equipment, petroleum products, fertilizer, steel products, raw cotton, grain, cement, motorcycles. | |
| Foreign direct investment US$ millions Year 2001 | 1,300 |
| Annual tele- communication investment (million US$) | |
| R&D Output | |
| High technology Exports million dollars in 1999 | |
| High technology exports % of manufactured exports 2000 | |
| Infrastructure | |
| Total Road network in 1995-99 | 93,300 |
| International arrivals in million | 2.14 [00] |
| Energy use in million tons of oil equivalent in 2000 | 36.965 |
| R&D expenditure | |
| Total R&D Expenditure in national currencies | |
| GERD/GDP as % | |
| Business Expenditure on R&D | |
| Industry financed GERD as Percentage | |
| Public Expenditure on Education as % of GDP 1998-2000 | |
| Human Resources Development | |
| Labor force in million (2002) | 38.20 |
| R&D personnel (no of persons) | |
| Business enterprise R&D personnel | |
| Researchers as % of labour force | |
| Information & Communication Technology | |
| Television equipped households in million | 13.56 [02] |
| Fixed phones Millions in 2002 (penetration% given in brackets) | 5.57 [6.9%] |
| Mobile phone Millions in 2002 (penetration% given in brackets) | 1.90 [2.3%] |
| Internet users in million in 2002 (penetration% given in brackets) | 1.50 [1.8%] |
| Number of PCs in Millions in 2002 (penetration% given in brackets) | 0.80 [1.0%] |
| Internet hosts - 2002 | 529 |