Roni (Veronnica) Pham's List: Vietnam

• total: 22.88  deaths/1,000 live births

  country comparison to the world: 96  

  male: 23.27  deaths/1,000 live births

   

  female: 22.46  deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)

  • Average death rates of babies. Baby boys live longer
• $2,800 (2008 est.)

  • GDP per capita of Vietnam
• total population: 71.58  years

  country  comparison to the world: 127  

  male: 68.78  years

   

  female: 74.57 years  (2009 est.)

  • How long the average person lives. Females live longer than males on average.
• 14.8% (2007 est.)

  • Percentage of people living in poverty
• growing urban industrialization and population migration are rapidly degrading  environment in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City
• densely-populated developing country

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• Most folks in the country are farmers

  • farming

• discrimination against women remains widespread in social, economic and  political life
• Tens of thousands of Vietnamese women have been trafficked as brides to East  Asia and other countries and subjected to servitude or forced labour in  appalling conditions”.

  • trafficking?