Laos Analytics

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

Mother Tongue : Lao

Literacy Rate (%) : 84.70

Country Capital	:	Vientaine
GDP Per capita	:	10,113
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	124^th/195
Life Expectancy	:	69
Unemployment Rate	:	1
Number of Internet Users	:	5,105,241
Internet Users Rank	:	96^th/195
Area	:	230,800
Area Rank	:	79^th/195
Total Population	:	7,873
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.

Better than World Average-

1. Laos is the 2^nd highest ranked in Lao out of 195 countries in the world. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Lao when compared to other countries.
2. The average Khmer of 195 countries in the world is 90,205. Laos is the 3^rd highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Khmer when compared to other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Laos is the 3^rd highest ranked in Thai . This implies that this country has significantly more people speaking Thai when compared to other countries.

Worse than World Average-

1. Laos is the 37^th worst ranked in Teachers in primary edu. out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate that the investment by the country in primary education is lesser when compared to other countries.
2. The average Literacy Rate (%) of the countries in the world is 86. Laos is the 56^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Laos is the 61^st worst ranked in Potatoes prod. . This is indicative of less focus on the production of potatoes, or scarcity of fertile land, or higher industrialisation as compared to other countries.

Laos Metrics

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Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	1	1125
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	42	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	154	1233
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1234
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1233
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1234
6	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	120	1235
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1231
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	97	1232
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	80	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	9	1	1126
2	Tree density .	Density	8	1	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	151	1233
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	135	1235
3	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	107	1234
4	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	110	1230
5	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	95	1232
6	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	97	1233
7	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	81	1230
8	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	81	1231
9	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	75	1230
10	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	75	1231
11	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	70	1232
12	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	62	1235
13	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	62	1233
14	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	50	1235
15	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	48	1233
16	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	42	1234
17	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	41	1232
18	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	41	1234
19	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	38	1234
20	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	37	1233
21	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	21	1230
22	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	20	1232
23	Iron Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	33,258	21	1232
24	Iron Production (% of Total Iron Production)	Percent	2	21	1230
25	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	19	1230
26	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	19	1234
27	Tin prod.	Tons	23,069	13	1231
28	Tin Produced/Total Tin Produced in 2019	Weight	7	13	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Lao	# People	108,471	2	1126
2	Lao as a % of total Lao speakers	% People	0	2	1125
3	Khmer	# People	90,205	3	1125
4	Thai	# People	204,841	3	1128
5	Khmer as a % of total Khmer speakers	% People	0	3	1129
6	Thai as a % of total Thai speakers	% People	0	3	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	32	1230
2	English	# People	3,175,743	27	1235
3	French	# People	596,219	23	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	3	1126
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	4	1127
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	4	1130
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	85	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	173	1235
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	169	1235
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	170	1233
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	165	1231
5	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	153	1235
6	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	133	1233
7	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	127	1233
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	127	1233
9	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	125	1230
10	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	108	1235
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	96	1232
12	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	77	1232
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	47	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	7	1130
2	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	11	1127
3	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	11	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	165	1234
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	184	1230
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	93	1234

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	73	134	1233
2	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	127	1230
3	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	90	1233
4	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	18	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	25	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	63	1233
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	63	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	48	1127
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	84	1130
Below than World Average-
1	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	185	1233
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	167	1234
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	142	1230
4	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	142	1233
5	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	127	1232
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	113	1233
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	109	1231
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	92	1233
9	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	98	1231
10	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	96	1231
11	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	66	1232
12	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	64	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	71	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	83	1232
2	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	39	1230
3	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	102	1230
4	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	102	1235
5	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	102	1234
6	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	94	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	171	1230
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	127	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	88,812	159	1234
2	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	139	1233
3	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	31	1	1235
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	115	1234
5	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	110	1235
6	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	107	1233
7	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	32	1	1235
8	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	100	1235
9	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	99	1233
10	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	98	1233
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,858,694	89	1232
12	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	87	1235
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	87	1232
14	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	86	1234
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	74	1232
16	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	56	1233
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	44	1235
18	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	4,946,299	38	1232
19	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	34	1230
20	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	5,059,423	16	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	133	1232
2	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1232
3	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	613	139	1230
4	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	124	1233
5	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	67	1232
6	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	67	1231

Laos Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	English	3.87 %
2	French	1.94 %
3	Standard Chinese	0.25 %

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