Vietnam to raise rate of trained workers to 40 percent by 2030

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam targets raising the proportion of trained workers to
35-40 percent by 2030 under a support programme for labour market development newly
issued by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
Overall,
the programme aims to provide a strong premise for comprehensively developing the labour
market; effectively mobilising, distributing, and utilising resources to boost
socio-economic growth; shift to a modernised labour structure; and promote links
between the domestic labour market and those of the region and the world.
Its
objectives are to increase the number of workers with labour market-relevant
skills and raise the number of trained workers to 30 percent by 2025 and 30-45
percent by 2030.
Under the
programme, Vietnam expects to be among the top 60 countries in the Knowledge
Workers sub-pillar of the Global Innovation Index (GII) by 2025 and among the
top 55 by 2030. The country also sets having 80 percent of its workforce possess
IT skills by 2025 and 90 percent by 2030, while reducing the rate of young
adults unemployed or untrained to below 8 percent.
To this
end, the country plans to improve the relevant legal framework to bolster the
development of the labour market; support the development of labour supply and
demand, a labour market database, social welfare and insurance, and a specialised
labour market; and promote links between the domestic and foreign labour
markets.
It will
also develop a set of indicators measuring the development of the labour market
compared with the regional and global markets, and evaluate the labour gap between
regions./.