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IndicatorLAOLao PDREast Asia & Pacific
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.14rank #145
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile28rank #160
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.06rank #141
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.11rank #137
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.03rank #147
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile40rank #142
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.14rank #145
Military spending% GDP0.19%rank #152
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.12rank #124
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile75.4rank #67
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile44.8rank #146
Rule of Law0-100 percentile44.2rank #150
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.35rank #106
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.14rank #140
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.11rank #126
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile31.1rank #181
Women in parliament% seats22%rank #103
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.51rank #126
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment68.6%rank #6
Agriculture value added% GDP16.6%rank #35
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker52,434.5rank #131
Current account balance% GDP3.2%rank #39
Employment-to-population ratio%65.4%rank #35
External debt stocks% GNI115.4%rank #106
FDI net inflows% GDP6%rank #41
GDPcurrent US$18.3Brank #134
GDP growth%4.5%rank #55
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$2,324.8rank #150
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $8,872.7rank #126
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $8,106.2rank #129
Government expenditure% GDP10.3%rank #108
Gross capital formation% GDP29%rank #39
Gross savings% GDP17.6%rank #113
High-technology exports% manuf. exports7.4%rank #73
Human capital indexindex1.9rank #116
Industry value added% GDP29.2%rank #49
Inflation%7.7%rank #139
Labour force participation rate%66.2%rank #47
Personal remittances received% GDP1.5%rank #91
R&D expenditure% GDP0.04%rank #91
Researchers in R&Dper million15.6rank #59
Tax revenue% GDP12.1%rank #92
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.46rank #86
Trade openness% GDP75.1%rank #91
Unemployment% labor force1.2%rank #8
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%1.3%rank #8
Vulnerable employment% employment76.4%rank #166
Youth unemployment% ages 15-242.4%rank #8
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-242.6%rank #9
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop95.9%rank #84
Basic sanitation access% pop88.7%rank #103
Child mortalityper 1002.9rank #101
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,188.1rank #60
DTP3 immunization coverage%67%rank #33
Health spending% GDP1.3%rank #192
Infant mortalityper 1k births27.2rank #101
Life expectancyyears69.2rank #159
Maternal mortalityper 100k112rank #60
Measles immunization% children69%rank #31
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%69%rank #31
Physiciansper 1k0.33rank #86
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m326rank #140
Road traffic deathsper 100k17.9rank #76
Smoking prevalence% adults25.4%rank #94
Suicide mortality rateper 100k4.6rank #50
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k127rank #102
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births29.4rank #138
Education
Adult literacy%75.6%rank #29
Education spending% GDP1.2%rank #116
Expected years of schoolingyears9.6rank #175
Mean years of schoolingyears6.1rank #152
Primary completion rate% relevant age85.2%rank #9
Primary enrollment% gross93.1%rank #13
Secondary enrollment% gross50.5%rank #8
Tertiary enrollment% gross14.9%rank #114
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00020.9rank #66
Fertility ratebirths/woman2.4rank #81
Median age of populationyears24.3rank #151
Net migration rateper 1,000-1.3rank #146
Populationpeople7.87Mrank #102
Population growth%1.3%rank #77
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years74.2rank #152
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands9,757.3rank #99
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age54.1rank #114
Urban population%40.3%rank #161
Climate
CO₂ emissionst24.4Mrank #82
CO₂ per capitat3.1rank #102
Electricity access% pop96.5%rank #17
Electricity from coal% generation23.3%rank #50
Electricity from hydro% generation76.5%rank #18
Electricity from solar% generation0.17%rank #154
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,664.7rank #91
Forest area% land71.5%rank #16
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita7rank #131
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh232.1rank #53
Renewable electricity%76.7%rank #29
Renewable energy share%49.2%rank #19
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e53.8rank #106
Society
Asylum seekerspeople466rank #55
Extreme poverty% pop7.1%rank #18
Female labor participation%61.6%rank #41
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 1002.7rank #127
Gender Development Indexratio0.91rank #83
Gender Inequality Index0-10.48rank #106
Gini indexindex34.7rank #8
Human Development Index0-10.62rank #115
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.46rank #102
Internet users% pop65.6%rank #126
Life satisfaction0-105.5rank #89
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.57rank #93
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #111
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #84
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.13rank #128
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.55rank #154
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people6,489rank #105
Youth NEET rate%22.8%rank #116
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year5rank #4
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102.7rank #22
Human hazard & exposure0-101.8rank #18
INFORM risk score0-103.8rank #27
Lack of coping capacity0-105.6rank #47
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-104.5rank #41
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106.5rank #44
Natural hazard & exposure0-103.6rank #23
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year73rank #13
Socio-economic vulnerability0-105rank #49
Vulnerability0-103.6rank #25
Vulnerable groups0-101.8rank #13
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