Featured country 、CAMBODIA

The population in the ASEAN region is about 600 million, which exceeds the EU (European Union) and NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) on the population scale, and the economic growth power has also achieved high growth over the past decade.

Because there are many countries with high economic growth rate, the area where the expectation as “growth center” is rising is the area.

Among them, we are developing business mainly in Cambodia, a focused country, similar to the era of Japan’s high-growth era.

What kind of country is Cambodia?

About country

  • Area : 180,035 square kilometers
  • Capital :Phnom Penh
  • population :About 15 million people
  • Average age :Approximately 25 years old
  • Average life :63 Yeard old
  • People : 94% Khmer, 3% Chinese, 3% Vietnamese
  • language :Cambodian (= Khmer), English
  • Religion: Buddhism (about 95% of the people)
  •  Politics: constitutional monarchy

Meaning of the national flag: Blue surrounding the whole is a royal

Political stability

King Norodom Sihamoni

Political system Constitutional monarchy

  • Head of state: King Norodom Sihamoni (Inception in October 2004 )
  • Prime Minister: Prime Minister Hun Sen Inaugurated in May 1989 )

Prime Minister Hun Sen

Reference: Streets of Cambodia

In a high growth rate environment like high economic growth

Population composition of Cambodia

The population pyramid of Cambodia reflects the influence of the sudden decrease of neonates due to massacre and fear politics carried out during the Pol Pot regime, from mid-50s to 60’s (then 20s to 30s) and? The population of the late thirties is extremely small compared with other age groups.

And the other hand, it is said that teenagers to twenties are baby boomers and the population of this generation is about half of the total population.

As a result, the social insurance cost to the elderly is small, the labor power indispensable for economic growth is abundantly supplied, and it guarantees the future economic growth of Cambodia.

Source: population pyramid World population pyramid (1950-2100 years)

Comparison with old Japan

出典:populationpyramid 世界の人口ピラミッド(1950~2100年)

Ongoing country growth (2017)

出典:IMF – World Economic Outlook Databases

Change in continuing growth rate

Japan · · · The economic growth rate in the 1970s is around 7% on average

Cambodia … on average We have achieved growth of around 7%