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 (%) : 85

Details

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

Worse than World Average-

1. Laos is the 49^th worst ranked in Doctors (Per 10,000) out of 195 countries in the world. This may indicate worse healthcare infrastructure investment by the country or may indicate lower population.
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	1129
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	39	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	154	1232
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1235
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1235
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1235
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1233
6	Urban Population	# People	23,726,053	120	1234
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1232
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	97	1235
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	80	1231

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Lao	# People	108,471	2	1125
2	Lao as a % of total Lao speakers	% People	0	2	1129
3	Khmer	# People	90,205	3	1127
4	Thai	# People	204,841	3	1127
5	Khmer as a % of total Khmer speakers	% People	0	3	1127
6	Thai as a % of total Thai speakers	% People	0	3	1127
Below than World Average-
1	Standard Chinese	# People	6,821,357	32	1230
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	1127
2	Employment in Agri. / Total Labour Force % .	% People	23	4	1130
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	1231
2	Employment in Services / Total Labour Force %.	% People	56	170	1235
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	169	1232
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	165	1231
5	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	153	1234
6	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	133	1233
7	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	127	1230
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	127	1232
9	Formal Jobs	# People	10,605,934	125	1233
10	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	112	1231
11	Unemployed Labour Force.	# People	1,511,199	108	1232
12	Total Labour Force (2023)	# People	20,409,734	96	1233
13	Labour Force Participation	# People	14,659,929	77	1234
14	Employment in Agriculture	# People	5,314,003	47	1234

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	0	11	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	184	1235

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	11	1125
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	165	1231
2	World Heritage Sites	Count	7	93	1230

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	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	20	147	1231
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	137	1230
3	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	134	1234
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	127	1230
5	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	116	1231
6	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	116	1231
7	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	92	1230
8	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	90	1230
9	HIV Infections (Per 1000)	People Per 1,000	0	57	1232
10	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	18	1235

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	1233
2	Military Force/Total World Military Force %.	% People	0	63	1233

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Tree density.	Density	22,685	26	1128
2	Tree density .	Density	828	29	1130
Below than World Average-
1	Tin Produced/Total Tin Produced in 2019	Weight	7	13	1231
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	135	1233
3	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	70	1233
4	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	50	1235
5	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	48	1233
6	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	42	1231
7	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	41	1232
8	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	41	1232
9	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	38	1233
10	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	37	1235
11	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	21	1230
12	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	20	1233
13	Tin prod.	Tons	23,069	13	1234

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	33	63	1126
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	26	89	1127
Below than World Average-
1	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	33	183	1235
2	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total Population	% People	30	164	1232
3	LinkedIn users	# People	6,064,509	141	1234
4	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	135	1231
5	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	127	1232
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	15	115	1231
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	14	111	1230
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	95	1230
9	Twitter users	# People	3,179,254	100	1234
10	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	96	1234
11	Facebook users	# People	7,174,483	70	1234
12	Facebook Users as a % of Total facebook Users	% People	0	70	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Population Growth Rate (%)	% People	0	71	1129
Below than World Average-
1	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	147	1230
2	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	140	1232
3	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	140	1233
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	102	1230
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	102	1232
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	102	1230
7	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	94	1233
8	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	56	1233

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	1231

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	1234
3	GDP (Billions USD)	$ Billions	613	139	1230
4	GDP Per Capita (USD)	$	30,070	124	1232
5	FDI (millions USD)	Amount	3,115	67	1234
6	FDI / Total FDI of the World %.		0	67	1232

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	139	1235
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	115	1235
3	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	110	1230
4	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	107	1234
5	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	100	1234
6	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	99	1231
7	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	98	1230
8	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	97	1230
9	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	95	1231
10	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	91	1231
11	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	89	1235
12	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	87	1230
13	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	87	1233
14	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	86	1235
15	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	74	1231
16	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	68	1232
17	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	56	1230
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	44	1234
19	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	34	1235

Laos Language Details

Sr.	Language	% of people speaking the language in country.
1	Lao	55.26 %
2	Khmer	16 %
3	Thai	7.56 %
4	English	3.87 %
5	French	1.94 %
6	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