From Classbrain.com
Vietnam - People
By CIA Factbook
Sep 26, 2004, 10:13
|
Population:
|
82,689,518 (July 2004 est.)
|
|
Age structure:
|
0-14 years: 29.4% (male 12,524,098; female 11,807,763)
15-64 years: 65% (male 26,475,156; female 27,239,543)
65 years and over: 5.6% (male 1,928,568; female 2,714,390) (2004 est.)
|
|
Median age:
|
total: 24.9 years
male: 24 years
female: 25.9 years (2004 est.)
|
|
Population growth rate:
|
1.3% (2004 est.)
|
|
Birth rate:
|
19.58 births/1,000 population (2004 est.)
|
|
Death rate:
|
6.14 deaths/1,000 population (2004 est.)
|
|
Net migration rate:
|
-0.45 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2004 est.)
|
|
Sex ratio:
|
at birth: 1.08 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.71 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2004 est.)
|
|
Infant mortality rate:
|
total: 29.88 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 25.77 deaths/1,000 live births (2004 est.)
male: 33.71 deaths/1,000 live births
|
|
Life expectancy at birth:
|
total population: 70.35 years
male: 67.86 years
female: 73.02 years (2004 est.)
|
|
Total fertility rate:
|
2.22 children born/woman (2004 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:
|
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
|
|
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)
|
© Copyright 2006 by Classbrain.com
|
|