The Ministry of Finance has announced that the rating agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) on April 29 gave Vietnam a crediting rating of BB-/B and a stable outlook, unchanged from the ratings announced in
Vietnam generated more than 67.7 billion USD from exports in the first five months of this year, surging 6.6 percent against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO)
Vietnam’s combined agriculture-forestry-fishery export turnover reached 15.05 billion USD in the first six months of 2016, up 5.4 percent from one year ago.
Vietnam posted a year-on-year GDP growth of 5.52 percent in the first half of 2016, down from 6.32 percent in the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO).
The gross domestic product (GDP) expands by 5.52 percent in the first six months of 2016, higher than that of the same period from 2012 to 2014, but showing a slowdown from the pace in 2015.
Export of famed fish brought home nearly 3.1 billion USD in the first six months of the year, a year-on-year surge of 3.8 percent, according to the VASEP.
Economic scale and per capita GDP in Vietnam (Source: VNA) 
