PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

ASEAN People and Society

Ethnic Language Religion Health HIV Education LITERACY
Group Expenditure Deaths Expenditure
BRUNEI Malay Malay Muslim 2.5% of GDP (2011) Fewer 3.3& of GDP (2012) 95.4%
66.3% (Official) (Official) than 200
English 67%, (2003 est.)
Chinese Buddhist
13%,
Christian
10%
CAMBODIA Khmer 90% Khmer Buddhist 5.7% of GDP (2011) 3, 100 2.6% of GDP (2010) 82.8%
(Official) 95% (Official) (2009 est.)
French, 96.4%,
English Muslim
2.1%
INDONESIA Javanese Bahasa Muslim 86. 2.7% of GDP 8,300 3% of GDP (2010) 92.8%
40.6% Indonesia 1% (2011) (2009 est.)
(Official,
modified form
of Malay)
English, Dutch
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LAOS Lao 55% Lao (Official), Buddhist 2.8% of GDP (2011) Fewer 3.3% of GDP (2010) 72.7%
French, 67%, than 200
English Christian (2009 est.)
1.5%

MALAYSIA Malay Bahasa Muslim (or 3.6 % of GDP 5, 800 5.1 % of GDP 93.1%
50.4% Malaysia Islam- (2011) (2009 est.) (2010)
(Official), Official)
English, 60.4%,
Chinese, Buddhist
Tamil, Telugu, 19.2%,
Malayalam, Christian
Panjabi and 9.1%
Thai
PHILIPPINES Tagalog Filipino Catholic 4.1% of GDP Fewer 2.7% of GDP (2009) 95.4%
28.1% (Official; 82.9% (2011) than 200
based on (Roman (2009 est.)
Tagalog) and Catholic
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SINGAPORE Chinese Mandarin Buddhist 4.6% of GDP (2011) Fewer 3.3% of GDP (2012) 95.9%
76.8% (Official) 35% 42.5%, than 100
English Muslim (2009 est.)
(Official) 23%, 14.9%
Malay
(Official)
14.1%

TIMOR AUSTRONEAN Tetum Buddhist 5.7% of GDP (2011) 3, 100 2.6% of GDP (2010) 82.8%
LESTE (Official) (Official) (2009 est.)
Portugu 96.4%,
Muslim
2.1%
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THAILAND Thai 75% Thai, English Buddhist 4.1% of GDP (2011) 28,000 3.8% of GDP (2010) 93.5%
Chinese 14% (secondary (Official) (2009 est.)
language of 94.6%,
the elite Muslim
4.6%

VIETNAM Kinh (Viet) Vietnamese Buddhist 6.8% of GDP (2011) 14,000 6.6% of GDP (2010) 93.4%
85.7% (Official) 9.3%, (2009 est.)
English Catholic
(increasingly 6.7%
favored as
second
language)
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CHINA Han Chinese Standard Daoist 5.2% of GDP (2011) 26,000 NA 95.1%
91.5% Chinese or (Taoist) (2009 est.)
Mandarin Buddhist,
(Putonghua, Christian
based on the 3-4%
Beijing dialect)

JAPAN Japanese Japanese Shintoism 9.3% of GDP (2011) Fewer 3.8% of GDP (2010) 99%
98.5% 83.9%, than 100
Buddhism (2009 est.)
71.4%
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SOUTH Homogeneous Korean and Muslim 2.5% of GDP Fewer 3.3& of GDP (2012) 95.4%
KOREA (except for English (Official) (2011) than 200
about 20,000 67%, (2003
Chinese) Buddhist est.)
13%,
Christian
10%

NORTH Khmer 90% Khmer Buddhist 5.7% of GDP 3, 100 2.6% of GDP (2010) 82.8%
KOREA (Official) 95% (Official) (2011) (2009
French, English 96.4%, est.)
Muslim
2.1%
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TAIWAN Taiwanese Mandarin Mixture of NA NA 96.1%

(including Chinese Buddhist
Hakka) 84% (Official) and Taoist
Taiwanese 93%
(Min) Christian
4.5%

HONG Chinese Cantonese Eclectic Fewer 3.4% of GDP (2011) 93.5%

KONG 93.6% (Official) Mixture of than 200
89.5% English Local (2003 est.)
(Official) 3.5% Religions
90%
Christian
10%