🇻🇳Viet Nam

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Population

101.6M

0.6%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.90

births/woman

Life Expectancy

74.7y

GDP / capita

$5.1K

Pop. Growth

0.60%

Net Migration

-48.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Viet Nam by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇳China83.9K(52.2%)

+287%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.48.7K(30.3%)

+287%

🇯🇵

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male49.8MTotal 101.6M51.8MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Abortion rate over time

Induced abortions per 1,000 women aged 15–49

Source: WHO / Guttmacher (compiled)

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

1.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Religious composition (2020)

Share of population by religion

Source: Pew Research / census

Where the Viet Nam diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Viet Nam who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States1.4M(41.8%)

+14%

🇯🇵Japan589.9K(17.2%)

15×

🇦🇺Australia294.4K(8.6%)

+45%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.260.6K(7.6%)

+361%

🇨🇦Canada179.7K(5.2%)

+8%

🇩🇪Germany140.9K(4.1%)

+54%

🇫🇷France116K(3.4%)

−3%

🇨🇳China88.3K(2.6%)

+155%

🇰🇭Cambodia41.4K(1.2%)

+2%

🇧🇩Bangladesh37.1K(1.1%)

+44%

🇨🇿Czechia29.5K(0.9%)

−39%

🇸🇪Sweden23.1K(0.7%)

+61%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024