According to the latest figures available among the 12.58 million elderly individuals, 4.62 million live in urban areas (36.72 per cent), while 7.96 million reside in rural areas (63.28 per cent).

The Politburo has issued new guidelines eliminating disciplinary actions against party members who have a third child, signaling a major shift in demographic policy.

The Politburo has instructed the Central Inspection Commission to revise party regulations, ensuring that members are no longer penalized for exceeding the two-child policy, marking a shift in demographic management.

Despite the decline in birth rates, Vietnam remains in its golden population period, where for every two working-age individuals, there is one dependent.

As of mid-2024, Vietnam's population had exceeded 101.1 million. HCM City is the most populous area with more than 9 million people, nearly 30 times more populous than the least populous city.

Vietnam's total fertility rate (TFR) dropped to a record low of 1.91 children per woman in 2024, signaling an urgent need for policies to address the declining birth rate and leverage the expertise of retirees to mitigate economic impacts.

For the third consecutive year, Vietnam’s birth rate has declined rapidly, reaching an unprecedented low of 1.91 children per woman in 2024, according to the Ministry of Health.

Demographic shifts are transforming Vietnam into an aging society, raising alarms about sustainability and the need for urgent policy measures.

To address low birth rates, Vietnam's lawmakers are considering changes to policies limiting Party members’ family size.

A new report from the General Department of Population forecasts that seven provinces in Vietnam will experience population decline in 2024, with An Giang projected to lose the most residents.

Vietnamese are marrying later and having fewer children, according to Pham Vu Hoang, deputy head of the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) General Department of Population.

The Ministry of Health has strongly refuted recent social media claims alleging that the Health Minister proposed a trial program to penalize single people.

A survey from the Việt Nam Association of Realtors showed that the country has about 400 retirement homes, with around 50 per cent of them charity centres or state-invested facilities.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has predicted that by 2038 there will be one person aged over 60 for every five people in Vietnam.

If the gap in the number of boys and girls at birth in Vietnam continues to widen, it will severely impact people born after 2005. By 2030, of those of marriageable age, about 10 percent of men won’t find spouses.

Population aging is creating new pressure and challenges to which the population and development work needs to flexibly respond as there are only 14 years left for Vietnam to prepare for an aged society.

As Vietnamese life expectancy has increased by 30 years in the last six decades, Vietnamese need to prepare for a healthy aging period.

The average number of babies in 2023 that each Vietnamese woman had was 1.96, the lowest figure in the last 63 years. The birth rate decrease is expected to continue in the years to come.

Vietnam is working to improve its fertility rate as the country is facing the risks of an aging population as well as losing its “golden population” phase that affect the socio-economic development.