ASIA · LAO

Laos

Gov: Communist Party-Led State

Detail: Communist Party-led State

Head of state: Thongloun Sisoulith

Head of govt: Sonexay Siphandone

Capital: Vientiane (Viangchan)

Language: Lao (official), French, English, various ethnic languages

Currency: No source

Region: Asia

Area: 236,800 km²

Population: 8M

GDP (PPP): $67B

Main exports: Electricity, fertilizers, gold

Main imports: Refined petroleum, cars, raw sugar

Trade bal.: +$1.3B

Memberships

UN WHO WTO IMF ASEAN IAEA

Quick compare

National Assembly

175seats · hover a seat for the member's name

Total seats

175

Majority line

Ruling coalition

—

Next election

—

All political parties1 party · 175seats · click to dim in hemicycle

Executive

Executive of Laos

Legislative

National Assembly

Judicial

—

No bill data available for Laos

No leader data available

Constitution data not yet available

No international memberships recorded

This country does not appear in the curated international organisations dataset yet.

Cite this pageAPA · BibTeX · Chicago · JSON

—

Download as JSON

Sources: Wikidata, IPU Parline, Constitute Project, Bjornskov-Rode / CGV regime taxonomy (QoG), V-Dem, Freedom House, World Bank WGI, UNDP HDI, Transparency International CPI, Civica Pulse (GDELT-derived)