Laos has conducted a nationwide population and housing census every ten years since 1985. The upcoming census, scheduled for 2025, will be the fifth of its kind.

Laos, with a population of fewer than seven million, now has almost five million mobile phones. At Ban Pak-Ou, a northern village on the Mekong River, fishermen stand motionless in their pirogues ...

became painfully aware that the non-Lao tribesmen who make up nearly half of Laos’ population had no loyalty to their six-year-old nation. To transform Laos into a reasonable facsimile of a ...

Laos -- once proudly known as "Lane Xang" or "Land of a Million Elephants" -- has between 500 and 1,000 of the animals left, just one-third of the population two decades ago, according to ...

Laos, UNFPA review progress, set priorities for 2025. The Lao government and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) highlighted key achievements in reproductive health and gen ...

While Laos has still one of the highest per capita annual rice consumption levels in the world, there is evidence that it had reached the peak in mid-2000s and is now on a declining trend. A ...

VIENTIANE, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Lao Deputy Prime Minister Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune has called on relevant authorities to prioritize the fifth population and housing census, recognizing it as a ...