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Transportation of Laos

Airports:44 (2006)
Airports - with paved runways:total: 9
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2006)
Airports - with unpaved runways:total: 35
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 21 (2006)
Pipelines:refined products 540 km (2006)
Roadways:total: 31,210 km
paved: 4,494 km
unpaved: 26,716 km (2003)
Waterways:4,600 km
note: primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m (2007)
Merchant marine:total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 2,370 GRT/3,110 DWT
by type: cargo 1 (2006)

Laos Quickstats

  • Population: 6,521,998 (July 2007 est.)
  • Area: 236,800 sq km
  • Density: 25 /km² (177th)
  • GDP (total): $12.547 billion (129th)
  • GDP (per capita): $2,124 (138th)
  • Literacy: 68.7%

Languages of Laos

Useful to know

  • Currency: Kip (LAK)
  • Dial code: +856

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Laos Internet

  • Usage: 20,900
  • Penetration: 0.4 %
  • Top Domain: .la

WT eBusiness info:

  • Success Ranking: 100
  • Market testing: Untested
  • Overall risk: High
  • Overall reward: Low

e-maturity:

  • Tourism: 10%
  • eCommerce: 10%
  • Gaming: 10%
  • eLearning: 10%

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