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Italy vs Vietnam
How Italy and Vietnam compare on 38 measures, from 1815 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Italy was higher: 83.7 years against 74.6 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Italy was higher: $34,720 against $4,308
- Population · In 2023, Vietnam was higher: 100 million people against 59.5 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Vietnam was higher: 2.15% of GDP against 1.89% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Italy was higher: 5.08 tonnes against 4.27 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyItaly: 83.7 years in 2023Vietnam: 74.6 years in 2023
- Child mortalityItaly: 0.3 per 100 live births in 2024Vietnam: 1.7 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityItaly: 2.2 per 1,000 live births in 2023Vietnam: 15.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterItaly: 92.7% in 2022Vietnam: 57.8% in 2022
- DepressionItaly: 3.46% in 2017Vietnam: 2.88% in 2017
- Suicide rateItaly: 4.8 per 100,000 people in 2017Vietnam: 7.4 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationItaly: 59.5 million people in 2023Vietnam: 100 million people in 2023
- Population growthItaly: -0.22% a year in 2023Vietnam: 0.64% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateItaly: 1.2 births per woman in 2023Vietnam: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationItaly: 69.7% in 2025Vietnam: 38.8% in 2025
- Median ageItaly: 47.5 years in 2023Vietnam: 32.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overItaly: 24.2% in 2023Vietnam: 8.6% in 2023
- Net migration rateItaly: 2.5 per 1,000 people in 2023Vietnam: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingItaly: 1.89% of GDP in 2025Vietnam: 2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsItaly: $45.4B in 2025Vietnam: $10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per personItaly: $813 in 2025Vietnam: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingItaly: 3.7% of government spending in 2025Vietnam: 9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelItaly: 338,000 people in 2020Vietnam: 522,000 people in 2020
- National powerItaly: 0.96% of world capability in 2022Vietnam: 1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersItaly: 1.35% of the labour force in 2020Vietnam: 0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsItaly: 566 million TIV in 2025Vietnam: 177 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exportsItaly: 1.92 billion TIV in 2025Vietnam: 10 million TIV in 2018
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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