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People

Population:
97,040,334 (July 2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 15
Nationality:
noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural)
adjective: Vietnamese
Ethnic groups:
Kinh (Viet) 85.7%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.8%, Muong 1.5%, Khmer 1.5%, Mong 1.2%, Nung 1.1%, Hoa 1%, other 4.3% (2009 est.)

note: 54 ethnic groups are recognized by the Vietnamese Government

Languages:
Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Religions:
Buddhist 7.9%, Catholic 6.6%, Hoa Hao 1.7%, Cao Dai 0.9%, Protestant 0.9%, Muslim 0.1%, none 81.8% (2009 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 23.27% (male 11,876,141 /female 10,704,895)
15-24 years: 15.81% (male 7,967,981 /female 7,371,016)
25-54 years: 45.67% (male 22,378,768 /female 21,939,925)
55-64 years: 8.9% (male 4,014,622 /female 4,620,177)
65 years and over: 6.35% (male 2,404,304 /female 3,762,505) (2018 est.)
population pyramid:
Dependency ratios:
total dependency ratio: 42.5 (2015 est.)
youth dependency ratio: 32.9 (2015 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 9.6 (2015 est.)
potential support ratio: 10.4 (2015 est.)
Median age:
total: 30.9 years
male: 29.9 years
female: 32.1 years (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 113
Population growth rate:
0.9% (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 120
Birth rate:
15.2 births/1,000 population (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 123
Death rate:
5.9 deaths/1,000 population (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 170
Net migration rate:
-0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 117
Population distribution:
though it has one of the highest population densities in the world, the population is not evenly dispersed; clustering is heaviest along the South China Sea and Gulf of Tonkin, with the Mekong Delta (in the south) and the Red River Valley (in the north) having the largest concentrations of people
Urbanization:
urban population: 35.9% of total population (2018)
rate of urbanization: 2.98% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
Major urban areas - population:
8.145 million Ho Chi Minh City, 1.444 million Da Nang, 1.219 million Hai Phong, 1.175 million Can Tho, 1.075 million Haiphong, 1.064 million HANOI (capital) (2018)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.1 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
0-14 years: 1.11 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
15-24 years: 1.08 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
55-64 years: 0.85 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
total population: 1 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
Maternal mortality rate:
54 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 92
Infant mortality rate:
total: 16.7 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
male: 17.1 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
female: 16.3 deaths/1,000 live births (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 94
Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 73.9 years (2018 est.)
male: 71.4 years (2018 est.)
female: 76.7 years (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 132
Total fertility rate:
1.79 children born/woman (2018 est.)
country comparison to the world: 150
Contraceptive prevalence rate:
75.7% (2015)
Health expenditures:
7.1% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world: 81
Physicians density:
0.82 physicians/1,000 population (2016)
Hospital bed density:
2.6 beds/1,000 population (2014)
Drinking water source:
improved: urban: 99.1% of population
rural: 96.9% of population
total: 97.6% of population
unimproved: urban: 0.9% of population
rural: 3.1% of population
total: 2.4% of population (2015 est.)
Sanitation facility access:
improved: urban: 94.4% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 69.7% of population (2015 est.)
total: 78% of population (2015 est.)
unimproved: urban: 5.6% of population (2015 est.)
rural: 30.3% of population (2015 est.)
total: 22% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.3% (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 90
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
250,000 (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 23
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
8,600 (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 22
Major infectious diseases:
degree of risk: very high (2016)
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever (2016)
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis (2016)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate:
2.1% (2016)
country comparison to the world: 192
Children under the age of 5 years underweight:
14.1% (2015)
country comparison to the world: 46
Education expenditures:
5.7% of GDP (2013)
country comparison to the world: 46
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write (2015 est.)
total population: 94.5% (2015 est.)
male: 96.3% (2015 est.)
female: 92.8% (2015 est.)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24:
total: 7.2% (2016 est.)
male: 7.1% (2016 est.)
female: 7.2% (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 143