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Laos AI Report

Date: July 4, 2025

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.

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.

#Dentists

The Average #Dentists of 195 countries in the world is 13,328. Laos is the 28^th highest ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies better healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or higher level of health awareness among the people in the country.

Doctors (Per 10,000)

Potatoes prod.

Out of 195 countries in the world, Laos is the 45^th worst ranked in Doctors (Per 10,000) . This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.

Laos is the 46^th worst ranked in GDP Per Capita (USD) out of all the 195 countries.This implies that this country is a developing country.

Laos is the 56^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) out of all the 195 countries.This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in other countries.

Laos is the 61^st worst ranked in Potatoes prod. out of all the 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.

Culture

Nature

Internet

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Pop. with access to Electricity (%)	% People	86	1	1129
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	42	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	154	1233
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1231
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1233
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1231
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1235
6	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	120	1233
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1232
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	97	1233
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	80	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Lao	# People	108,471	2	1128
2	Lao as a % of total Lao speakers	% People	0	2	1130
3	Khmer	# People	90,205	3	1125
4	Thai	# People	204,841	3	1129
5	Khmer as a % of total Khmer speakers	% People	0	3	1130
6	Thai as a % of total Thai speakers	% People	0	3	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	32	1232
2	English	# People	3,175,743	27	1232
3	French	# People	596,219	23	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Employment in Agriculture /Total Pop. %.	% People	9	3	1130
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	4	1128
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	4	1127
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	85	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Non-Agri Labour force/Total Labour force %.	% People	76	173	1233
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	169	1235
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	170	1230
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	165	1232
5	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	153	1233
6	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	133	1235
7	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	127	1234
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	127	1230
9	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	125	1235
10	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	108	1235
11	Total Labour Force (2021)	# People	20,409,734	96	1231
12	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	77	1235
13	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	47	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Pop./Total Pop.%.	% People	3	7	1128
2	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	11	1130
3	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	11	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	165	1231
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	184	1232
3	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	93	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Dentist to doctor ratio	Ratio	3	19	1125
2	#Dentists	# People	13,328	28	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	21	147	1232
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	134	1230
3	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	134	1233
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	127	1230
5	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	116	1235
6	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	116	1231
7	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	92	1235
8	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	90	1235
9	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	18	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Military Force/Total Pop. %	% People	1	25	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Total Military Force	# People	358,465	63	1235
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	63	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	26	1126
2	Tree density .	Density	828	29	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	151	1235
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	135	1234
3	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	107	1230
4	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	110	1231
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	1232
8	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	81	1232
9	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	75	1235
10	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	75	1233
11	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	70	1231
12	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	62	1232
13	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	62	1235
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	1235
17	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	41	1232
18	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	41	1232
19	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	38	1230
20	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	37	1230
21	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	21	1233
22	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	20	1235
23	Iron Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	33,258	21	1230
24	Iron Production (% of Total Iron Production)	Percent	2	21	1232
25	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	19	1233
26	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	19	1230
27	Tin prod.	Tons	23,069	13	1233
28	Tin Produced/Total Tin Produced in 2019	Weight	7	13	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	48	1125
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	84	1129
Below than World Average-
1	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	35	185	1235
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	31	167	1235
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	142	1234
4	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	142	1234
5	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	127	1233
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	113	1232
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	109	1232
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	92	1230
9	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	98	1235
10	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	96	1235
11	Facebook users	# People	6,757,917	66	1234
12	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	64	1230

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	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	44	1232
2	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	147	1232
3	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	135	1234
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	102	1234
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	102	1235
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	102	1235
7	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	94	1233
8	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	56	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	GDP Per Capita at PPP (USD)	$	30,228	187	1235
2	GDP as a % of Total GDP	Percent	0	134	1232
3	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	18,051	150	1230
4	Corporate Tax Rates in %	Rate	23	130	1235
5	GDP (Billions USD) 2025	$ Billions	597	134	1233
6	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	67	1231
7	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	67	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	# Phone Numbers /Total Pop. %	Percent	101	171	1235
2	# Mobile phone numbers	Count	40,393,496	127	1233

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	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	112	1232
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	110	1230
5	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	107	1232
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	100	1235
7	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	99	1234
8	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	98	1230
9	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	97	1235
10	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	95	1235
11	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	91	1235
12	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	89	1231
13	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	87	1231
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	87	1233
15	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	86	1233
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	74	1232
17	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	68	1232
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	56	1233
19	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	44	1235
20	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	34	1230

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	:	2,096
GDP Per Capita Rank	:	150^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

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