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Hanoi

overall rank: 21

1998 rank: 22

country: Vietnam

population: 2,356,000

snapshot: Hanoi at a glance		rank
overall score	52	21
average income US$	3,270.00	28
educational spending ¹	468.00	9
ratio of house price to income ²	c	…
hospital beds per 1000 people	17.0	3
pollution ³	300	34
vehicles per km of road	…	-
criminal cases per 10,000	15^a	14
TV sets per 1,000 people	180^b	22
inflation	9.2	-
GDP growth	5.8	8
unemployment rate	9.09	31
average class size	30.0	6
life expectancy	66.0	28.0
commute time	30	10
phones per 1,000 people	200	21

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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
^a estimates
^b national figure
^c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
¹ state educational spending, per capita US$
² average house price divided by average annual income
³ suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m³)

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