Average life expectancy in Vietnam has been on the rise with women having longer life expectancy than men, according to the General Department of Population and Family Planning under the Ministry of Health.
By late 2023, Vietnam’s total population reached around 100.30 million, up 0.84 percent against the end of 2022. Of the figure, the urban population was 38.20 million people, accounting for over 38 percent and the rural population was over 62 million people, making up nearly 62 percent. Males accounted for 50 million people, representing 49.9 percent and females 50.3 million people, accounting for the remainder.
The sex ratio at birth in the Vietnamese population in 2023 was 112 boys to 100 girls, showing the country’s imbalance in sex ratio at birth.
Vietnam’s total fertility rate in Vietnam in 2023 was 1.95 children per woman, a decline against 2.01 children in 2022. The southeastern and the Mekong Delta regions’ fertility rate has continued to fall (some 1.5 children per woman). This year, Ho Chi Minh City saw the lowest fertility rate in the country at just 1.27 children per woman.
Mai Trung Son, Deputy Head of the Population and Family Planning Department, said that Vietnam’s population growth rate dropped from a very high level of 3.90 percent in 1960 to 1.14 percent in 2019 and only 0.95 percent in 2021.
The Vietnamese population has been forecasted to reach 107 million in 2044 and then decrease to 72 million in 2100.
Vietnamese people’s average life expectancy is around 73.70 years old compared to 73.60 in 2022. Men’s average life expectancy in the year is 71.10 years old, meanwhile, the figure is 76.50 for women.
Life expectancy in Vietnam increases
Average life expectancy in Vietnam has been on the rise with women having longer life expectancy than men, according to the local Ministry of Health.
Source: dtinews.vn, NLD
