From the April 30, 2015, Panama City News Herald.
THE PEOPLE
92.5 million: Vietnam's population in 2014. More than two-thirds of the country was born after the war ended.
1.3 million+: Americans of Vietnamese ethnic origin up from 231,000 in 1980.
THE CASUALTIES
58,000+: U.S. servicemen killed in Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia.
3 million: Vietnamese communist fighters and civilians killed. That does not include South Vietnameseces, whose losses are estimated by some American sources as up to 250,000.
1.971: Americans missing in action and otherwise unaccounted for in Vietnam at war's end.
700+: U.S. remains recovered and identified by joiny U.S.-Vietnamese teams since then.
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