Laos Analytics

Laos is a mid-size country with 0.1% of the world's population. Laos is a communist republic country. It has 3 world heritage sites.

LANGUAGES

Official Language:
1. Lao : 4,351,000
2. Khmer : 1,260,000

Mother Tongue : Lao

Literacy Rate (%) : 84.7

Details

Country Capital	:	Vientaine
GDP Per capita	:	9,207
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	124^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	68
Unemployment Rate	:	1
Number of Internet Users	:	4,588,000
Internet Users Rank	:	100^th/195
Area	:	230,799
Area Rank	:	79^th/195
Total Population	:	7,425
Total Population Rank	:	102^nd/195

Continent: South East Asia and Oceania

Cities with > 100K popln: 5

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Laos Highlights

Laos is the 102^nd ranked country in population and 79^th ranked in area out of 195 countries in the world.Please keep the country rank in perspective, for the highlights below.

Worse than World Average-

1. Laos is the 56^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of 195 countries in the world. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
2. The average Potatoes prod. of the countries in the world is 2,516,782. Laos is the 62^nd worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This is indicative of less focus on the production of potatoes, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Laos is the 63^rd worst ranked in Formal Jobs . This may indicate that the country is not highly urbanised or indicate that the unemployment rate is high compared to other countries

Laos Metrics

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	85	1	1125
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	41	42	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	59	156	1230
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1233
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	14	87	1231
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	8	66	1231
6	Urban Population (2021)	# People	22,563,215	117	1235
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	42	109	1232
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	97	1234
9	Rural Pop.	# People	36,027,518	81	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Lao	# People	108,471	2	1129
2	Lao as a % of total Lao speakers	% People	0	2	1129
3	Khmer	# People	90,205	3	1130
4	Thai	# People	204,841	3	1125
5	Khmer as a % of total Khmer speakers	% People	0	3	1126
6	Thai as a % of total Thai speakers	% People	0	3	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	32	1231
2	English	# People	3,174,835	27	1235
3	French	# People	596,219	23	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	7	1125
2	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	1	12	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	186	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	8	1127
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	24	9	1127
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	24	9	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Unemployment Rate.	% People	13	186	1235
2	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	171	1233
3	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	55	169	1234
4	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	170	1235
5	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	165	1235
6	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	159	1235
7	Formal Jobs	# People	20,455,444	134	1234
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	28,805,473	133	1233
9	Employment in Services	# People	19,494,546	131	1232
10	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	115	1232
11	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	112	1230
12	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	19,636,200	104	1234
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	10,466,926	56	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Population	# People	1,912,220	11	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,744,062	166	1230
2	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	91	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	19	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	71	131	1232
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	118,384	102	1233
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	28,678	61	1230
4	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	35	19	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	25	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	353,432	63	1234
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	1	64	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	26	1127
2	Tree density .	Density	828	29	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Potatoes prod.	Weight	2,516,782	134	1234
2	Soyabean prod.	Weight	3,628,152	61	1232
3	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	42	1231
4	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	41	1230
5	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	41	1232
6	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Weight	833,178	36	1235
7	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	1	36	1230
8	Rice prod.	Weight	6,871,329	19	1233
9	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	1	20	1235
10	Tin prod.	Weight	23,069	13	1233
11	Tin Produced/Total Tin Produced in 2019	Weight	15	14	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	44	1125
2	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	1	69	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	49	151	1231
2	Total Population (2021)	# People (In Thousands)	40,345	102	1233
3	Male Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,393	102	1231
4	Female Population	# People (In Thousands)	20,160	102	1231
5	Births	# People (In Thousands)	688	92	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	76	70	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	67	125	1231
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	54	109	1231
3	Internet Users	# People	25,030,008	100	1231
4	Facebook users	# People	16,391,045	85	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	108	1130
Below than World Average-
1	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	1	110	1231
2	GDP (Billions USD) 2022	$ Billions	531	129	1232
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	25,265	124	1233
4	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	103	1234
5	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	10,566	43	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	171	1232
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	127	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	139	1230
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	115	1232
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	110	1232
4	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	107	1230
5	Total Literate Pop.	# People	68,251,097	102	1235
6	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	99	1234
7	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	98	1233
8	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	97	1235
9	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	95	1233
10	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	91	1232
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	89	1232
12	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	87	1235
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	87	1235
14	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	86	1230
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	74	1230
16	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	68	1231
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	56	1232
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	44	1230
19	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	34	1234

Laos Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Lao	58.6 %
2	Khmer	16.97 %
3	Thai	8.01 %
4	English	4.11 %
5	French	2.06 %
6	Standard Chinese	0.27 %

Sr.	City	Total City Population (2023)
1	Champhone	122,467
2	Kaysone Phomvihane	140,859
3	Salavan	113,158
4	Songkhone	112,149
5	Vientiane	920,630