Laos
64 figures for Laos, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Laos compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $2,325 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $10,383 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.5% (2025)
- Unemployment 1.2% (2025)
- Inflation +23.1% (2024)
- Exports 33.2% (2016)
- Income per person $8,103 (2023)
- Household wealth 75.7 (2019)
- Poorer households 13.8% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.15 (2019)
People
- Population 7.67 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.32% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.40 (2024)
- Typical age 24.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 40.3% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.617 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.911 (2023)
- People per household 4.5 (2019)
- People over 65 5.3% (2019)
- Children under 15 32.2% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 19.9 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 21.0 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 69.0 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 29.4 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 112 (2023)
- Health spending per person $27 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 69% (2024)
- Overweight adults 31.0% (2022)
- Stunted children 28.7% (2019)
- Overweight children 4.8% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 61.5% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 79.6% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 6.1 (2023)
- Expected years in school 9.6 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 54.4% (2023)
- Education spending 1.5% (2022)
- Teens in school 69.1% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 3.14 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 24.4 million (2024)
- Forest cover 71.5% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 27.0 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 51.5% (2021)
- Average temperature 23.3 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 881 (2023)
- Access to electricity 96.5% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 76.7% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 23.3% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.9% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 65.6% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 63.4 (2022)
- Home broadband 2.4 (2022)
- Satellites by owner 1 (2026)
- Homes with internet 1.7% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 94.2% (2019)
Food and farming
- Cereal yield 4,102 (2023)
- Farmland 9.9% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 68.6% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.14 (2025)
- Human rights 0.14 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.99 (2025)
- Women in parliament 22.0% (2025)
- Military spending 0.2% (2013)
- Clean government 21.4 (2022)