Religions:
Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census)
Languages:
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 90.3% male: 93.9% female: 86.9% (2002 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
total: 10 years male: 11 years female: 10 years (2000)
Education expenditures:
1.8% of GDP (1991)