Statistics of Vietnam (2007):

Government Type: Communist
Independence: From the french The 2 September 1945
Legal System: based on communist legal theory and French civil law system
Chief of state: President Nguyen Minh TRIET (elected at 94%), Vice President Truong My HOA (elected at 92%)
Head of Government: Prime Minister Nguyen Tan DUNG,
Deputy Prime Minister: Nguyen Sinh HUNG, Pham Gia KHIEM, Truong Vinh TRONG
Elections: president elected by the National Assembly from among its members for five-year term; last held 27 June 2006 (next to be held in 2011);

Capital: Hanoi
Population: 85,262,356
Age Structure:
0-14 years: 26.3%
15-64 years: 67.9%
65 years and over: 5.8%
Median age is 26 years.
Life expectancy: 71 years
Language Spoken:Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Ethnic Group: Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1%
Religion: Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8%
Time Difference: UTC+7
Use of Mobile Phones: 9.593 million
Telephone System: Vietnam is putting considerable effort into modernization and expansion of its telecommunication system, but its performance continues to lag behind that of its more modern neighbors.
Drugs: minor producer of opium poppy; probable minor transit point for Southeast Asian heroin; government continues to face domestic opium/heroin/methamphetamine addiction problems despite longstanding crackdowns.

Informations from the CIA World Factbook