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Vietnam vs. Thailand

How Vietnam and Thailand compare on income per person, population, life expectancy, internet use, electricity, unemployment, inflation, carbon emissions, health spending and college enrollment, each next to the world figure and linked to its chart, where you'll find its source, its date and every country's numbers.

The biggest differences

  • Inflation is 3.2 percentage points higher in Vietnam (3.6%) than in Thailand (0.4%).
  • Health spending per person is 66% higher in Thailand ($327) than in Vietnam ($197).
  • GDP per person is 57% higher in Thailand ($7,387) than in Vietnam ($4,717).

The two are about the same on the share of people with electricity, the unemployment rate, and college enrollment.

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Figures are from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), for the newest year most countries have reported; many are estimates, and they are revised as new data comes in. GDP per person is in US dollars at each year's exchange rates, not adjusted for differences in prices, and so is health spending. Two figures are called about the same when GDP, population, emissions or health spending differ by less than 5%, life expectancy by less than a year, unemployment or inflation by less than 1 percentage point, or another share by less than 2 percentage points.

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