LaosandMyanmar

1353 · 1044

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Laos

1353 — Fa Ngum is crowned king of Lan Xang

Dossier →Chronicle →

Myanmar

1044 — Anawrahta comes to power and builds the Pagan kingdom

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
42
Domains
9
Crossed events
1
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

LAOMMR
  • GDP
    $18 B2025$82 B2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $2,3252025$1,4892025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    4.5%2025-2.0%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    7.7%20258.8%2019
    Observed 2025 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    75.1%2016—
    Observed 2016 / — · figures compared, never graded

Society

LAOMMR
  • Population
    7.9 m202555 m2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    69.2 yrs202467.1 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    40.3%202530.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    2.420242.12024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

LAOMMR

Health

LAOMMR
  • Health spending
    1.3%20234.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.3320220.762019
    Observed 2022 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    29.4202436.92024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    69.0%202471.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    35.2%202459.7%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

LAOMMR
  • Adult literacy
    75.6%202393.5%2020
    Observed 2023 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Education spending
    1.2%20232.0%2019
    Observed 2023 / 2019 · figures compared, never graded
  • Primary enrolment
    93.1%2025120.2%2018
    Observed 2025 / 2018 · figures compared, never graded
  • Secondary enrolment
    50.5%202577.0%2018
    Observed 2025 / 2018 · figures compared, never graded
  • Tertiary enrolment
    14.9%202320.4%2018
    Observed 2023 / 2018 · figures compared, never graded

Technology

LAOMMR
  • R&D spending
    0.0%20020.0%2023
    Observed 2002 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    162002282023
    Observed 2002 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Internet users
    65.6%202445.4%2020
    Observed 2024 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    6520231142024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    7.4%20235.2%2024
    Observed 2023 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

LAOMMR
  • Land area
    230,800 km²2023652,670 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    71.5%202342.4%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    9.9%202319.9%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    3.420240.62024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    49.2%202262.9%2021
    Observed 2022 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

LAOMMR
  • Resource rents
    5.4%20218.7%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.1%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    3.9%20212.0%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    1.5%20212.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    96.5%202480.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Rare earths
    —22.0 kt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

LAOMMR
  • Military burden
    0.2%20136.8%2024
    Observed 2013 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $23 M2013$5.0 B2024
    Observed 2013 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    129,0002020463,0002020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

One event in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1560 CE

    Setthathirath moves the capital to Vientiane

    Facing Burmese pressure, King Setthathirath transfers his capital from Luang Prabang to Vientiane, brings the Emerald Buddha, and builds the great stupa of That Luang.

    Politics & Power · from the Laos chronicle · The Kingdom of Lan Xang · REFS 2 — Setthathirat I, Vientiane