Country Name: Laos
Population: 7,574,356
Government type: Communist
GDP per capita:$7,826
Life expectancy: 66 Years
Chief of state: President Thongloun Sisoulit
Head of government: Prime Minister Phankham Viphavan
Population below poverty line: 18.3%
Interesting Item: The Plain of Jars located near Phonsavan, the main city of Xiengkhouang Province.
Stats are curtesy of the CIA World Fact Book
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes: it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something else is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
