Laos

General information

Name	Laos
Long name	Lao People's Democratic Republic
Population (source)	census
Population (people)	4,574,848 (1995)
Constitutional form	Republic
Drives on	Right
Head of state authority	Executive
Main continent	Asia
Number of airports	42
Airports - with paved runways	9
Airports - with unpaved runways	33
Area (m²)	236,800
Birth rate (births/1,000 population)	26
Calling code
Children under the age of 5 years underweight (%)	32
Current Account Balance (US$)	96,000,000
Death rate (deaths/1,000 population)	8
Debt - external (Billion US$)	6
Economic aid donor (Billion $)
Electricity consumption (billion kWh)	2
Electricity consumption per capita (kWh per person)	339
Electricity exports (million kWh)	341
Electricity imports (million kWh)	999
Electricity production (billion kWh)	2
Exports (Billion $)	2
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)	2,700
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)	18
GDP real growth rate (%)	8
Gross national income (US$)	37
Human Development Index	1
Health expenditures (% of GDP)	7
Heliports
HIV AIDS adult prevalence rate (%)	0
HIV AIDS deaths	200
HIV AIDS people living with HIV AIDS	8,500
Hospital bed density (beds/1,000 population)	1
Capital city	Vientiane
Currency	Lao kip
Imports (Billion $)	2
Industrial production growth rate (%)	18
Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)	58
Inflation rate consumer prices (%)	8
Internet hosts	1,526
Internet tld	.la
Internet users	300,000
Investment (gross fixed) (%)
Iso 3166 code	LA
ISO CODE	LAO
Labor force	3,690,000
Life expectancy at birth (years)	63
Literacy (%)	73
Manpower available for military service	1,574,362
Manpower fit for military service	1,111,629
Manpower reaching militarily age annually	71,400
Is democracy	Yes
Market value of publicly traded shares (US$)
Maternal mortality rate (deaths/100,000 live births)	470
Merchant marine	1
Military expenditures percent of GDP	1
Natural gas consumption (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas consumption per capita (cubic meters per person)	0
Natural gas exports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas imports (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas production (cubic meters)	0
Natural gas proved reserves (cubic meters)	0
Net migration rate (migrant/1,000 population)	-1
Obesity adult prevalence rate (%)	1
Oil consumption (bbl/day)	3,000
Oil consumption per capita (bbl/day per 1000 people)	0
Oil exports (bbl/day)	0
Oil imports (bbl/day)	1,918
Oil production (bbl/day)	0
Oil proved reserves (bbl)	0
Physicians density (physicians/1,000 population)	0
Population below poverty line (%)	26
Population census (people)	4,574,848 (1995)
Population density (Number of people per square kilometer)	28
Population estimate (people)
Population growth rate (%)	2
Public debt (% of GDP)
Railways (km)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold (US$)	773,500,032
Roadways (km)	39,568
Stock of direct foreign investment abroad (US$)
Stock of direct foreign investment at home (US$)
Telephones main lines in use	103,100
Telephones main lines in use per capita	2
Telephones mobile cellular	4,003,000
Telephones mobile cellular per capita	59
Total fertility rate (children born/woman)	3
Unemployment rate (%)	3
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 (%)
Waterways (km)	4,600
Valley
Helicopter
Canyon
Artillery
Crater
Religion
Continent	Asia
Border
Plateau	Xiangkhoang Plateau
Marsh
Demonym	laotian, lao

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