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Taking advantage of golden population structure for new era
Vietnam’s population has officially surpassed the 100 million mark and is in the golden population structure phase. This is an opportunity for the country to maintain growth and development. However, policies to improve the quality of human resources, in terms of knowledge, health, and skills, ...
Thanh Mai
Vietnam's fertility rate declines to historic low of 1.96
The Ministry of Health today coordinated with the Hanoi People’s Committee to launch the National Action Month on Population with the theme “Improving population quality for a prosperous country and happy families” and to respond to Vietnam Population Day (December 26) in 2024.At the event, ...
Translated By Anh Quan
Challenges of delayed childbirth in Vietnam
The rising trend of late pregnancy in Vietnam is leading to increased challenges for women’s health and fertility despite advancements in medical technology as well as trouble to the national demographics. The modern lifestyle has led to a growing trend of young women delaying childbirth or ...
Translated by Thanh Tam
Aging population: transforming demographic challenges into opportunities
Population aging is an irreversible global trend and has a strong impact on all areas of society. The challenges that population aging brings to economic growth, politics, and social security issues are directly affecting the elderly.Vietnam is currently in the group of 15 countries with ...
Experts urge actions to address low fertility rate
An international policy consultation workshop held in Hanoi on August 28 sounded the alarm on Vietnam’s declining fertility rate, with experts highlighting the linkage between education level, economic conditions and birth rates.The hybrid event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Health’s Vietnam Population Authority (VPA) and ...
Vietnam faces challenges of aging society
An aging population is presenting many challenges for Vietnam as the country’s social security system is still in its early stages and its economic resources are limited, delegates said at the Aging Summit 2022 in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29. Le Thu Huyen ...
Vietnam’s economy to slow as population ages: WB report
Population aging could slow down Vietnam’s long-term growth in the 2020–2050 period by 0.9 percentage points compared with the last 15 years, a new World Bank (WB) report finds.According to the report Vietnam: Adapting to an Aging Society, jointly produced by the WB and the ...
Population faces new challenges
The population sector of the nation are facing new challenges in terms of significant disparities in fertility among regions, imbalances in the sex ratio at birth, ineffective exploitation of the advantages of the golden population, and a lack of synchronous solutions.This was the content shared ...
Vietnam likely to become super-aging country by 2050: deputy minister
Vietnam entered an “aging phase” in 2011 and remains among the most rapidly aging countries in the world and, as such, might become a super-aging country by 2050, stated Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong.Naomi Kitahara, head of the United Nations Population Fund in ...
Hanoi’s forum discusses challenges and opportunities of ageing population
An inter-generational forum was held in Hanoi on September 30 on the occasion of the International Day of Older Persons (October 1), showing a positive view of an ageing population in turning challenges into opportunities and to strengthen the understanding of the dynamics of an ...