With its economic, healthcare and educational achievements, Vietnamhas remarkably improved the quality of its population, an official saidon Dec. 20.
Speaking at a press conference in response to the national action monthfor population and Vietnam ’s Population Day (Dec. 26), GeneralDirector of the General Population Department Duong Quoc Trong saidVietnam’s human development index (HDI) rose from 0.690 in 2000 to 0.725in 2009, hitting the target set in the 2001-2010 Vietnam populationstrategy.
Vietnam has also achieved itstargets in terms of birth reduction and birth replacement rate. Thenation’s population growth rate dropped to 1.1 percent in 2009 from 1.5percent 10 years earlier.
According to theofficial, Vietnam had already reached the birth replacement rate in2005 and its population is estimated at 87 million by the end of 2010.
“The outstanding achievements in birth reductioncreated a firm basis for Vietnam to quickly stabilise its populationscale, thereby contributing greatly to the country’s sustainabledevelopment and improving people’s living conditions,” he said.
However, Trong noted Vietnam is still among middle HDI countries,as its healthy life expectancy or the average number of years a personmight live in good health is just 66, ranking 116 out of 182 countriesworldwide in 2009.
Population work will face morechallenges during the 2011-2020 period, he said, referring to the factthat the fatality rate among under-one-year-old infants remains high inseveral regions and the number of children suffering from autism,diabetes and obesity is increasing.
The ratio ofnewborn boys to girls is growing rapidly, reaching 111/100 last year,while the Vietnamese population is ageing, the official elaborated.
Vietnam is now completing its legal documents and improving populationmanagement work in an effort to keep the sex ratio at birth no morethan 113 by 2015 and 115 by 2020, and restrain its population to notexceed 93 million and 98 million in those years, respectively./.
Speaking at a press conference in response to the national action monthfor population and Vietnam ’s Population Day (Dec. 26), GeneralDirector of the General Population Department Duong Quoc Trong saidVietnam’s human development index (HDI) rose from 0.690 in 2000 to 0.725in 2009, hitting the target set in the 2001-2010 Vietnam populationstrategy.
Vietnam has also achieved itstargets in terms of birth reduction and birth replacement rate. Thenation’s population growth rate dropped to 1.1 percent in 2009 from 1.5percent 10 years earlier.
According to theofficial, Vietnam had already reached the birth replacement rate in2005 and its population is estimated at 87 million by the end of 2010.
“The outstanding achievements in birth reductioncreated a firm basis for Vietnam to quickly stabilise its populationscale, thereby contributing greatly to the country’s sustainabledevelopment and improving people’s living conditions,” he said.
However, Trong noted Vietnam is still among middle HDI countries,as its healthy life expectancy or the average number of years a personmight live in good health is just 66, ranking 116 out of 182 countriesworldwide in 2009.
Population work will face morechallenges during the 2011-2020 period, he said, referring to the factthat the fatality rate among under-one-year-old infants remains high inseveral regions and the number of children suffering from autism,diabetes and obesity is increasing.
The ratio ofnewborn boys to girls is growing rapidly, reaching 111/100 last year,while the Vietnamese population is ageing, the official elaborated.
Vietnam is now completing its legal documents and improving populationmanagement work in an effort to keep the sex ratio at birth no morethan 113 by 2015 and 115 by 2020, and restrain its population to notexceed 93 million and 98 million in those years, respectively./.
