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Laos vs Myanmar

113 shared metrics.

LaosLeads in 60

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MyanmarLeads in 53

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What matters for both sides

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Laos

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Lao People's Democratic Republic.

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Identity

Name origin: name means "Land of the Lao [people].

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Myanmar

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Union of Burma.

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Identity

Name origin: both "Burma" and "Myanmar" derive from the name of the majority Burman (Bamar) ethnic group, with the term myanma, or "the strong," being the group's name f…

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Analysis

Laos leads in 60 of 113 shared metrics, while Myanmar leads in 53.

Laos's Current Account Balance (% of GDP) is 27.5x that of Myanmar (11.4% of GDP vs 0.40% of GDP).

Laos's Liberal Democracy Index is 6.3x that of Myanmar (0.11 vs 0.01).

Laos's Beer Consumption is 6.0x that of Myanmar (3.7 L/person/yr vs 0.52 L/person/yr).

Laos's Alcohol Consumption is 4.6x that of Myanmar (10.82 L/adult/yr vs 1.9 L/adult/yr).

Laos's CO2 Per Capita is 4.4x that of Myanmar (3.1 t/person/yr vs 0.58 t/person/yr).

Key Comparisons

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)Laos leads

Laos

11.4% of GDP

Myanmar

0.40% of GDP

Liberal Democracy IndexLaos leads

Laos

0.11

Myanmar

0.01

Beer ConsumptionLaos leads

Laos

3.7 L/person/yr

Myanmar

0.52 L/person/yr

Alcohol ConsumptionLaos leads

Laos

10.82 L/adult/yr

Myanmar

1.9 L/adult/yr

CO2 Per CapitaLaos leads

Laos

3.1 t/person/yr

Myanmar

0.58 t/person/yr

Coal Electricity ShareLaos leads

Laos

23.28%

Myanmar

5.5%

All Metrics

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

Laos

11.4% of GDP

Myanmar

0.40% of GDP

2750% higher

Liberal Democracy Index

Laos

0.11

Myanmar

0.01

633% higher

Beer Consumption

Laos

3.7 L/person/yr

Myanmar

0.52 L/person/yr

599% higher

Alcohol Consumption

Laos

10.82 L/adult/yr

Myanmar

1.9 L/adult/yr

461% higher

CO2 Per Capita

Laos

3.1 t/person/yr

Myanmar

0.58 t/person/yr

442% higher

Coal Electricity Share

Laos

23.28%

Myanmar

5.5%

321% higher

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Laos

28.67 per 100k

Myanmar

6.9 per 100k

318% higher

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Laos

6.0% of GDP

Myanmar

1.5% of GDP

305% higher

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Laos

1.3K kWh/person

Myanmar

354.13 kWh/person

257% higher

Protected Land (%)

Laos

18.8%

Myanmar

6.6%

185% higher

Inflation Rate

Laos

23.1%

Myanmar

8.8%

163% higher

Spirits Consumption

Laos

3.0 L/person/yr

Myanmar

1.2 L/person/yr

144% higher

Teen Birth Rate

Laos

81.65 per 1k

Myanmar

33.51 per 1k

144% higher

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Laos

267.78 per 1k people

Myanmar

122.96 per 1k people

118% higher

Corruption Perceptions Index

Laos

34 pts

Myanmar

16 pts

113% higher

Electricity Generation

Laos

52.3 TWh

Myanmar

24.68 TWh

112% higher

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Laos

815.09 kg oil eq/person

Myanmar

399.52 kg oil eq/person

104% higher

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Laos

4.0 sites

Myanmar

2.0 sites

100% higher

Merchant Fleet Size

Myanmar

Laos

1.0

Myanmar

101

99% lower

Military Spending

Myanmar

Laos

0.19% of GDP

Myanmar

6.8% of GDP

97% lower

Comparison of Laos and Myanmar across 113 metrics
				Winner
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	11.4% of GDP	0.40% of GDP	2750% higher	Laos
Liberal Democracy Index	0.11	0.01	633% higher	Laos
Beer Consumption	3.7 L/person/yr	0.52 L/person/yr	599% higher	Laos
Alcohol Consumption	10.82 L/adult/yr	1.9 L/adult/yr	461% higher	Laos
CO2 Per Capita	3.1 t/person/yr	0.58 t/person/yr	442% higher	Laos
Coal Electricity Share	23.28%	5.5%	321% higher	Laos
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	28.67 per 100k	6.9 per 100k	318% higher	Laos
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	6.0% of GDP	1.5% of GDP	305% higher	Laos
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.3K kWh/person	354.13 kWh/person	257% higher	Laos
Protected Land (%)	18.8%	6.6%	185% higher	Laos
Inflation Rate	23.1%	8.8%	163% higher	Laos
Spirits Consumption	3.0 L/person/yr	1.2 L/person/yr	144% higher	Laos
Teen Birth Rate	81.65 per 1k	33.51 per 1k	144% higher	Laos
Vehicles per 1,000 People	267.78 per 1k people	122.96 per 1k people	118% higher	Laos
Corruption Perceptions Index	34 pts	16 pts	113% higher	Laos
Electricity Generation	52.3 TWh	24.68 TWh	112% higher	Laos
Energy Use (Per Capita)	815.09 kg oil eq/person	399.52 kg oil eq/person	104% higher	Laos
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	4.0 sites	2.0 sites	100% higher	Laos
Merchant Fleet Size	1.0	101	99% lower	Myanmar
Military Spending	0.19% of GDP	6.8% of GDP	97% lower	Myanmar
Railway Length	422 km	5.0K km	92% lower	Myanmar
Milk Consumption per Person	2.9 kg/person/yr	31.48 kg/person/yr	91% lower	Myanmar
Population	7.95M	57.93M	86% lower	Myanmar
Water Withdrawal	7.3 B m³	33.23 B m³	78% lower	Myanmar
GDP (Nominal)	$16,502,933,121.34	$74,068,349,523.81	78% lower	Myanmar
Air Passengers	842.3K	3.54M	76% lower	Myanmar
Youth Unemployment Rate	2.4% of youth labor force	9.8% of youth labor force	76% lower	Myanmar
Irrigated Land	4.4K km²	17.1K km²	74% lower	Myanmar
Airports	20	74	73% lower	Myanmar
Armed Forces Personnel	129.0K	463.0K	72% lower	Myanmar
Electric Generating Capacity	12.74M kW	7.42M kW	72% higher	Laos
Solar Electricity Share	0.17%	0.55%	69% lower	Myanmar
Forest Coverage (%)	71.46%	42.4%	69% higher	Laos
Electoral Democracy Index	0.14	0.08	69% higher	Laos
Land Area	230.8K km²	652.7K km²	65% lower	Myanmar
GNI Per Capita	$2,000	$1,210	65% higher	Laos
Government Debt (% GDP)	58.4% of GDP	35.7% of GDP	64% higher	Laos
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$9,775.83	$5,997.47	63% higher	Laos
Health Spending (% GDP)	2.0% of GDP	5.2% of GDP	61% lower	Myanmar
Firms Making Informal Payments	26.44% of firms	16.45% of firms	61% higher	Laos
Population Density	33.21 /km²	82.94 /km²	60% lower	Myanmar
Unemployment Rate	1.2%	3.0%	60% lower	Myanmar
Mobile Money Accounts	11.84% of adults	29.03% of adults	59% lower	Myanmar
Suicide Rate	4.6 per 100k	2.9 per 100k	58% higher	Laos
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.33 per 1k	0.76 per 1k	57% lower	Myanmar
Firms Hit by Power Outages	41.46% of firms	94.91% of firms	56% lower	Myanmar
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.03 per 100k people	0.02 per 100k people	56% higher	Laos
Women's Political Empowerment	0.51	0.33	54% higher	Laos
Electricity Carbon Intensity	232.08 gCO2/kWh	502.99 gCO2/kWh	54% lower	Myanmar
Highest Elevation	2.8K m	5.9K m	52% lower	Myanmar
Capital Elevation	174 m	115 m	51% higher	Laos
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	15 days/yr	10 days/yr	50% higher	Laos
Agricultural Land (%)	9.9%	19.91%	50% lower	Myanmar
Scientific Publications	83.93	163.39	49% lower	Myanmar
Meat Consumption per Person	30.41 kg/person/yr	58.25 kg/person/yr	48% lower	Myanmar
Seafood Consumption per Person	24.01 kg/person/yr	45.85 kg/person/yr	48% lower	Myanmar
Women in Parliament (%)	21.95%	15.29%	44% higher	Laos
Credit Card Ownership	1.1% of adults	2.0% of adults	44% lower	Myanmar
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	65 per 100 people	114 per 100 people	43% lower	Myanmar
High-Tech Exports (%)	7.4%	5.2%	43% higher	Laos
Safe Drinking Water (%)	35.19%	59.72%	41% lower	Myanmar
Tobacco Use Prevalence	25.4% of adults	42.5% of adults	40% lower	Myanmar
Forest Area	164.9K km²	276.7K km²	40% lower	Myanmar
Smoking Rate	27.2%	44.4%	39% lower	Myanmar
Women in Senior Management	25.68% of managers	40.97% of managers	37% lower	Myanmar
Elderly Population (%)	4.7%	7.3%	36% lower	Myanmar
Digital Payments Used	26.53% of adults	39.91% of adults	34% lower	Myanmar
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	22.32 µg/m³	32.31 µg/m³	31% lower	Myanmar
Urban Population (%)	39.56%	30.45%	30% higher	Laos
Life Evaluation Score	5.5 pts	4.3 pts	29% higher	Laos
Health Spending Per Capita	$41.35	$57.97	29% lower	Myanmar
Insufficient Physical Activity	15.58% of adults	21.62% of adults	28% lower	Myanmar
Electricity Access (%)	96.5%	76.8%	26% higher	Laos
Hypertension Prevalence	28.4% of adults	37.4% of adults	24% lower	Myanmar
Birth Rate	19.22 per 1k	15.44 per 1k	24% higher	Laos
Youth Population (%)	30.2%	24.3%	24% higher	Laos
Freedom of Expression Index	0.03	0.03	23% higher	Laos
Firms with Female Top Manager	50.69% of firms	41.13% of firms	23% higher	Laos
Renewable Energy (%)	49.2%	62.9%	22% lower	Myanmar
Sanitation Access (%)	88.73%	74.18%	20% higher	Laos
Adult Literacy Rate	75.64%	93.55%	19% lower	Myanmar
Land Border Length	5.3K km	6.5K km	19% lower	Myanmar
Median Age	24.3 years	29.5 years	18% lower	Myanmar
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.3 per 1k	1.1 per 1k	18% higher	Laos
Total CO2 Emissions	26.06 Mt CO2e	31.36 Mt CO2e	17% lower	Myanmar
Dependency Ratio	53.53% of working-age pop.	46.21% of working-age pop.	16% higher	Laos
Water Stress (%)	3.9%	3.3%	16% higher	Laos
Death Rate	6.1 per 1k	7.2 per 1k	15% lower	Myanmar
Road Traffic Death Rate	16.4 per 100k	19.3 per 100k	15% lower	Myanmar
Fertility Rate	2.2 children/woman	1.9 children/woman	12% higher	Laos
Informal Employment Share	90.49% of employed people	80.71% of employed people	12% higher	Laos
Political Corruption Index	0.77	0.86	11% lower	Myanmar
Broadband Access (%)	2.7 per 100 people	3.0 per 100 people	9% lower	Myanmar
Internet Users (%)	64%	59%	8% higher	Laos
Average Weekly Work Hours	41.53 hrs/week	44.65 hrs/week	7% lower	Myanmar
Food Waste per Person	174.08 kg/person/yr	162.51 kg/person/yr	7% higher	Laos
Firms Asked for Bribes	30.6% of firms	29.33% of firms	4% higher	Laos
Obesity Rate	7.8%	7.5%	3% higher	Laos
Infant Mortality	35.2 per 1k births	34.1 per 1k births	3% higher	Laos
Life Expectancy	69.0 years	66.9 years	3% higher	Laos
Tourist Arrivals	886.4K	903.0K	2% lower	Myanmar
Can Raise Emergency Money	93.29% of adults	95.33% of adults	2% lower	Myanmar
Human Development Index	0.62	0.61	1% higher	Laos
Child Mortality	39 per 1k births	38.7 per 1k births	1% higher	Laos
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	equal	Laos
Coastline Length	0 km	1.9K km	ranked lower	Myanmar
Wind Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Laos
GDP Growth Rate	4.1%	-0.97%	ranked higher	Laos
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0.02 per 1M people	ranked lower	Myanmar
Lowest Elevation	70 m	0 m	ranked higher	Laos
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Laos
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Laos
Border Neighbors	5.0	5.0	equal	Laos

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Analysis

Laos leads in 60 of 113 shared metrics, while Myanmar leads in 53.

Laos's Current Account Balance (% of GDP) is 27.5x that of Myanmar (11.4% of GDP vs 0.40% of GDP).

Laos's Liberal Democracy Index is 6.3x that of Myanmar (0.11 vs 0.01).

Laos's Beer Consumption is 6.0x that of Myanmar (3.7 L/person/yr vs 0.52 L/person/yr).

Laos's Alcohol Consumption is 4.6x that of Myanmar (10.82 L/adult/yr vs 1.9 L/adult/yr).

Laos's CO2 Per Capita is 4.4x that of Myanmar (3.1 t/person/yr vs 0.58 t/person/yr).

Key Comparisons

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)Laos leads

Laos

11.4% of GDP

Myanmar

0.40% of GDP

Liberal Democracy IndexLaos leads

Laos

0.11

Myanmar

0.01

Beer ConsumptionLaos leads

Laos

3.7 L/person/yr

Myanmar

0.52 L/person/yr

Alcohol ConsumptionLaos leads

Laos

10.82 L/adult/yr

Myanmar

1.9 L/adult/yr

CO2 Per CapitaLaos leads

Laos

3.1 t/person/yr

Myanmar

0.58 t/person/yr

Coal Electricity ShareLaos leads

Laos

23.28%

Myanmar

5.5%

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

11.4% of GDP

0.40% of GDP

Liberal Democracy Index

0.11

0.01

Beer Consumption

3.7 L/person/yr

0.52 L/person/yr

Alcohol Consumption

10.82 L/adult/yr

1.9 L/adult/yr

CO2 Per Capita

3.1 t/person/yr

0.58 t/person/yr

Coal Electricity Share

23.28%

5.5%

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

28.67 per 100k

6.9 per 100k

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

6.0% of GDP

1.5% of GDP

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

1.3K kWh/person

354.13 kWh/person

Protected Land (%)

18.8%

6.6%

Inflation Rate

23.1%

8.8%

Spirits Consumption

3.0 L/person/yr

1.2 L/person/yr

Teen Birth Rate

81.65 per 1k

33.51 per 1k

Vehicles per 1,000 People

267.78 per 1k people

122.96 per 1k people

Corruption Perceptions Index

34 pts

16 pts

Electricity Generation

52.3 TWh

24.68 TWh

Energy Use (Per Capita)

815.09 kg oil eq/person

399.52 kg oil eq/person

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

4.0 sites

2.0 sites

Merchant Fleet Size

1.0

101

Military Spending

0.19% of GDP

6.8% of GDP

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Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

Liberal Democracy Index

Beer Consumption

Alcohol Consumption

CO2 Per Capita

Coal Electricity Share

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Protected Land (%)

Inflation Rate

Spirits Consumption

Teen Birth Rate

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Corruption Perceptions Index

Electricity Generation

Energy Use (Per Capita)

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Merchant Fleet Size

Military Spending

Railway Length

Milk Consumption per Person

Population

Water Withdrawal

GDP (Nominal)

Air Passengers

Youth Unemployment Rate

Irrigated Land

Airports

Armed Forces Personnel

Electric Generating Capacity

Solar Electricity Share

Forest Coverage (%)

Electoral Democracy Index

Land Area

GNI Per Capita

Government Debt (% GDP)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Health Spending (% GDP)

Firms Making Informal Payments

Population Density

Unemployment Rate

Mobile Money Accounts

Suicide Rate

Doctors (per 1,000)

Firms Hit by Power Outages

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Women's Political Empowerment

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Highest Elevation

Capital Elevation

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Agricultural Land (%)

Scientific Publications

Meat Consumption per Person

Seafood Consumption per Person

Women in Parliament (%)

Credit Card Ownership

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

High-Tech Exports (%)

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Forest Area

Smoking Rate

Women in Senior Management

Elderly Population (%)

Digital Payments Used

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Urban Population (%)

Life Evaluation Score

Health Spending Per Capita

Insufficient Physical Activity