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Laos
Laos has a compulsory chip-enabled National ID card but no formal digital ID system; the optional Gov-X app gives access to online government services. The Bank of Lao PDR has run a CBDC proof of concept.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Laos
- Program
- National ID card; Gov-X app; CMIS
- Status
- Being built or piloted
- National ID card
- ID card compulsory
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- No dedicated digital ID law; Law on Electronic Data Protection (2017)
Cards have been chip-enabled since 2015. The Civil Management Information System launched in September 2022. The SEAP page does not mention biometric data. It reports that stateless persons are excluded from the card and from Gov-X. Laos pledged in 2025 to universal birth registration by 2030.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- Pilot
- Name
- DLak
Not independently re-confirmed. The Human Rights Foundation tracker has no Laos entry. Earlier data records a Bank of Lao PDR proof of concept with Soramitsu.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2022-09Rolling it out
The Civil Management Information System launched. SEAP (Nationality for All) — Laos digital ID overview ↗
UN and WHO
How Laos has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 62.5 · rank 122 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 3
Sovereignty score
How the -1 adds up
- -1Running a CBDC pilot source ↗
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.