Lao PDR

General information

Capital: Vientiane

Currency unit: Kip

Area: 236,800 km²

Total population: 7,769,820

GDP (millions of US dollars): 16,503

GDP per capita, PPP (current international US dollars): 9,776

Production

Agriculture (% of GDP): 24.4 %

Manufacture (% of GDP): 12.4 %

Industry excluding manufacture (% of GDP): 22.9 %

Services (% of GDP): 40.2 %

Trade

Total exports (millions of US dollars): 11,118

Total imports (millions of US dollars): 9,930

Main exported goods (% of total exports):
Electric current (22.0 %)
Fertilizers (7.9 %)
Gold, non-monetary (excluding gold ores and concentrates) (6.8 %)
Vegetables (4.6 %)
Copper ores and concentrates; copper mattes, cemen (4.6 %)

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National Attractiveness and Sustainability (coming soon)

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Lao PDR: -

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	Lao PDR
National Attractiveness and Sustainability (coming soon)	-

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Internal Real Exchange Rate

Lao PDR: 82

Breakdown by component

	Lao PDR
Internal Real Exchange Rate	82
Agricultural Internal Real Exchange Rate Lao PDR: 147	147
Manufacturing Internal Real Exchange Rate Lao PDR: 83	83

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Agricultural Internal Real Exchange Rate

Lao PDR: 147

Breakdown by component

	Lao PDR
Agricultural Internal Real Exchange Rate	147

Revealed Competitiveness

This section brings together measures of countries’ revealed competitiveness in international markets, that is, their ability to export to those markets. These measures of export competitiveness are therefore the result of the price and non-price competitiveness factors presented in the sections “National Attractiveness and Sustainability” and “Price Competitiveness.” They are defined on a scale ranging from 0 to 10,000, with a higher value indicating greater export competitiveness in international markets.

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