Laos Analytics

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

Mother Tongue : Lao

Literacy Rate (%) : 84.7

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

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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 45^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 GDP Per Capita (USD) of the countries in the world is 18,051. Laos is the 46^th worst-ranked country out of 195 countries. This implies that this country is a developing country.
3. Out of the 195 countries in the world, Laos is the 56^th worst ranked in Literacy Rate (%) . This indicates that the educational infrastructure in this country is worse than it is in 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	1127
2	Rural Pop. /Total Pop. %	% People	40	42	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Urban Population / Total Population % .	% People	60	154	1231
2	# Cities>300000	# Cities	8	94	1232
3	# Cities>300000	# Cities	7	86	1234
4	# Cities>500000	# Cities	5	73	1233
5	# Cities>500000	# Cities	4	65	1232
6	Urban Population (2021)	# People	23,726,053	120	1235
7	# Cities>100000	# Cities	21	108	1232
8	# Cities>100000	# Cities	23	97	1233
9	Rural Pop.	# People	18,013,759	80	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	Lao	# People	108,471	2	1127
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	1128
5	Khmer as a % of total Khmer speakers	% People	0	3	1129
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	1234
3	French	# People	596,219	23	1234

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	1128
3	Employment in Agriculture/Total Labour force %.	% People	23	4	1127
4	Total Labour Force/Total Pop.	% People	43	85	1129
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	1230
3	Employment in services/Total Labour force %.	% People	56	170	1233
4	Employment in Services /Total pop.%.	% People	25	165	1232
5	Wage & Salaried Workers / Total Labour Force %	% People	58	153	1230
6	Unemployment Rate.	% People	7	133	1233
7	Employment in Services	# People	10,251,634	127	1234
8	Non-Agricultural Labour Force	# People	15,067,127	127	1234
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	1235
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	1127
2	Buddhist Population	# People	1,911,974	11	1126
3	Buddhist Pop./Total Buddhist Pop. %	% People	0	11	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Islamic Population	# People	9,936,734	165	1234
2	Islamic Pop./Total Pop.%	% People	22	184	1233
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	1130
2	#Dentists	# People	13,328	28	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Doctors (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	21	147	1231
2	Life Expectancy at Birth, both sexes	Age	73	134	1235
3	Nurses to doctor ratio	Ratio	46	134	1231
4	Total No. of Doctors	# People	78,648	127	1233
5	Total Nursing	# People	163,061	116	1230
6	Nurses(per 10000)	People per 10000	164,032	116	1231
7	Pharmacists (Per 10,000)	People Per 10,000	4	92	1234
8	Total No. of Pharmacists	# People	19,528	90	1230
9	Dentist (per 10,000)	People per 10000	31	18	1230

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	1230
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	Tree density.	Density	22,685	26	1128
2	Tree density .	Density	828	29	1126
Below than World Average-
1	Cow Milk Production (in tonnes)	Weight	3,855,383	151	1230
2	Potatoes prod.	Tons	2,538,925	135	1232
3	Chicken Meat Production (% of Total Chicken Meat Production)	Percent	0	107	1230
4	Chicken Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	588,164	110	1234
5	Cow Beef Production (% of Total Cow Beef Production)	Percent	0	95	1230
6	Cow Beef Production (in tonnes)	Weight	320,761	97	1233
7	Goat Meat Production (% of Total Goat Meat Production)	Percent	0	81	1234
8	Goat Meat Production (in tonnes)	Weight	46,111	81	1230
9	Number of Cows	Count	8,697,624	75	1234
10	Cows (% of Total Cows)	Percent	0	75	1234
11	Soyabean prod.	Tons	3,684,006	70	1235
12	Orange Production (% of Total Orange Production)	Percent	0	62	1230
13	Orange Production (in tonnes)	Weight	618,959	62	1231
14	Sugarcane prod.	Tons	52,039,862	50	1233
15	Sugarcane Produced/Total Sugarcane Produced.%	Weight	2	48	1235
16	Number of Trees	Count	15,642,617,148	42	1233
17	Forest Area.	Area	21,142,892	41	1234
18	Country forest area / Global Forest area %		0	41	1232
19	Sweet Potatoes prod.	Tons	895,180	38	1233
20	Sweet Potatoes Produced/Total Sweet Potatoes Produced %	Weight	0	37	1232
21	Rice prod.	Tons	6,981,685	21	1234
22	Rice Produced/Total Rice Produced.%	Weight	0	20	1233
23	Iron Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	33,258	21	1232
24	Iron Production (% of Total Iron Production)	Percent	2	21	1232
25	Coal Production (% of Total Coal Production)	Percent	1	19	1235
26	Coal Production (in 1000 metric tons)	Weight	121,850	19	1233
27	Tin prod.	Tons	23,069	13	1230
28	Tin Produced/Total Tin Produced in 2019	Weight	7	13	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Above than World Average-
1	FB Users / Total Int. Users %.	% People	31	48	1128
2	FB Users / Total Pop. %.	% People	25	84	1125
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	1230
3	LinkedIn Users as a % of Total LinkedIn Users	% People	0	142	1231
4	LinkedIn users	# People	6,388,891	142	1235
5	Int. Users / Total Pop.%	% People	70	127	1234
6	Twitter Users as a % of Total Internet Users	% People	14	113	1234
7	Twitter Users as a % of Total Population	% People	13	109	1230
8	Twitter Users as a % of Total Twitter Users	% People	0	92	1231
9	Twitter users	# People	3,173,740	98	1231
10	Internet Users	# People	28,408,774	96	1235
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	1128
Below than World Average-
1	Gender Ratio	Ratio of female per male, Country total female/ Country total male	1	44	1231
2	Density ( Pop/Land Area Ratio)	Density	312	147	1234
3	Female % of Total Pop.	% People	50	135	1235
4	Total Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	42,003	102	1232
5	Male Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	21,226	102	1230
6	Female Population (2025)	# People (In Thousands)	20,993	102	1234
7	Births	# People (In Thousands)	681	94	1231
8	Male % of Total Pop.	% People	50	56	1233

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

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	1230

Sr.	Title	Metric	World Average	Rank out of 195	Value
Below than World Average-
1	Literacy Rate (%)	% People	86	139	1232
2	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu/Total Literate Pop. %.	% People	9	115	1232
3	Teachers in primary edu.	# People	357,113	112	1231
4	Enrolment in Tertiary Edu./ Total Pop. %.	% People	9	110	1235
5	Enrolment in tertiary edu.(all programmes)	# People	4,618,191	107	1231
6	Total Literate Pop.	# People	34,678,001	100	1230
7	Teachers in secondary edu.	# People	659,923	99	1231
8	Teachers as a % of Enrolment	% People	41	98	1231
9	Enrolment in secondary edu.	# People	9,727,510	97	1230
10	Enrolment in primary edu.	# People	9,629,078	95	1235
11	# Students per teacher in tertiary edu.	Ratio	58	91	1231
12	# Total Teachers (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	2,895,876	89	1230
13	Enrolment in Primary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	27	87	1235
14	# Total Students (Primary+Secondary+Tertiary)	# People	38,831,325	87	1230
15	Teachers in tertiary edu.	# People	297,976	86	1231
16	Enrolment in Primary Edu./ Total Literate Pop %.	% People	36	74	1232
17	# Students per teacher in secondary edu.	Ratio	57	68	1231
18	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Pop %.	% People	23	56	1234
19	Enrolment in Secondary Edu./Total Literate Pop.	% People	28	44	1230
20	# Students per teacher in Primary edu.	Ratio	260	34	1232

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