Vietnam: People & Society#
| Population | 95,261,021 (July 2016 est.) |
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| Nationality | noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural) adjective: Vietnamese |
| Ethnic groups | Kinh (Viet) 85.7%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.8%, Muong 1.5%, Khmer 1.5%, Mong 1.2%, Nung 1.1%, Hoa 1%, other 4.3% note: 54 ethnic groups are recognized by the Vietnamese Government (2009 est.) |
| Languages | Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer, mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian) |
| Religions | Buddhist 7.9%, Catholic 6.6%, Hoa Hao 1.7%, Cao Dai 0.9%, Protestant 0.9%, Muslim 0.1%, none 81.8% (2009 est.) |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 23.84% (male 11,938,563/female 10,767,261) 15-24 years: 16.69% (male 8,240,861/female 7,658,711) 25-54 years: 45.22% (male 21,690,214/female 21,390,448) 55-64 years: 8.24% (male 3,610,716/female 4,238,569) 65 years and over: 6.01% (male 2,216,485/female 3,509,193) (2016 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 42.5% youth dependency ratio: 32.9% elderly dependency ratio: 9.6% potential support ratio: 10.4% (2015 est.) |
| Median age | total: 30.1 years male: 28.9 years female: 31.2 years (2016 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 0.95% (2016 est.) |
| Birth rate | 15.7 births/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Death rate | 5.9 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Net migration rate | -0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Urbanization | urban population: 33.6% of total population (2015) rate of urbanization: 2.95% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
| Major urban areas - population | Ho Chi Minh City 7.298 million; HANOI (capital) 3.629 million; Can Tho 1.175 million; Haiphong 1.075 million; Da Nang 952,000; Bien Hoa 834,000 (2015) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.11 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.11 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.08 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.01 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.85 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.63 male(s)/female total population: 1 male(s)/female (2016 est.) |
| Maternal mortality rate | 54 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 17.8 deaths/1,000 live births male: 18.2 deaths/1,000 live births female: 17.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 73.4 years male: 70.9 years female: 76.2 years (2016 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 1.82 children born/woman (2016 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 78.1% (2011) |
| Health expenditures | 7.1% of GDP (2014) |
| Physicians density | 1.19 physicians/1,000 population (2013) |
| Hospital bed density | 2 beds/1,000 population (2010) |
| Drinking water source | improved: urban: 99.1% of population rural: 96.9% of population total: 97.6% of population unimproved: urban: 0.9% of population rural: 3.1% of population total: 2.4% of population (2015 est.) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 94.4% of population rural: 69.7% of population total: 78% of population unimproved: urban: 5.6% of population rural: 30.3% of population total: 22% of population (2015 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | 0.48% (2015 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 255,100 (2015 est.) |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | 8,900 (2015 est.) |
| Major infectious diseases | degree of risk: very high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, and Japanese encephalitis (2016) |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 3.5% (2014) |
| Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 12.1% (2013) |
| Education expenditures | 5.7% of GDP (2013) |
| Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 94.5% male: 96.3% female: 92.8% (2015 est.) |
| Child labor - children ages 5-14 | total number: 2,545,616 percentage: 16% (2006 est.) |
| Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 | total: 6% male: 5.3% female: 6.8% (2013 est.) |