Selected statistics about Viet Nam (Updated July 2013)

POPULATION

• Total (2011):  87.84 million
• Urban (2011): 31.7%
• Rural (2011): 68.3%
• Annual population growth rate (2010):  1.04%
• Sex ratio at birth (boys born per 100 girls born, 2012): 112.3
  
• Proportion of population under 15 years of age: 23.2%
• Population density (persons per square kilometre, 2011):  265.00
• Land area (square kilometres): 330,957

 

HEALTH 

• Life expectancy at birth (2010-2015)
  Men: 73.4 years
  Women: 77.4 years

• Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births (2011): 15.5
  
• Child malnutrition rate (percentage underweight, 2007): 27%
• Fertility rate (births per woman, 2011): 1.99
• Maternal mortality rate (deaths per 100,000 live births, 2009): 69

 

POVERTY

• Poverty rate (percentage poor, national poverty line, 2011): 12.6%
• Food poverty line (percentage poor households, 2006 est.): 6.7%

ECONOMY

• GDP per capita (2011) : US$1375
• Annual average GDP growth rate (2005-2010): 6.8%
• Exchange rate (July 2013) US$1 = Dong 21,276
• Increase in consumer price index (first six months of 2010): 8.757%

 

EDUCATION

• Adult literacy rate (2009) - total:  97.1%
• Net primary school ratio (2009) – total:  95.5%
• Net lower secondary school ratio (2005):  69%
• Net upper secondary school ratio (2004):  55%
• Primary-secondary gross enrolment ratio (f/m per 100) (2005-2011): 88.7/86.9
• Female third-level students (2005-2011): 49.2%

 

ENVIRONMENT

• Threatened species (2011):  469
• Forested area (% of land area, 2009): 44     
  
• CO2 emission estimates (1000 metric tons and metric tons per capita, 2008):  127280/0.4     
  
• Energy consumption per capita (kilograms oil equivalent, 2009):    465.0

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

• Human development index (Ranking out of 187 countries, 2012): 127
• Gender-related development index (Ranking out of 109 countries, 2007): 62
• Human poverty index (Ranking out of 135 developing countries, 2007): 55 

 

Sources: UNdata 2013, UNDP 2013, General Statistics Office of Viet Nam 2013