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Viet Nam

101,598,527

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+610.84K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+31.7%from 77.15M
Life expectancy74.7 years2024
Fertility rate1.90births per woman · 2024
Urban population38.8%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Viet Nam is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1422.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6467.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+9.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate13.4births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate6.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+6.8births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-48.17Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Viet Nam look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 110.01M in 2050—8.9% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 2024100.99M
  2. 2050110.01M
  3. 210091.71M
Median age in 205040.2years
Births in 20501.15Mduring the year
Deaths in 20501.14Mduring the year
Life expectancy78.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196032.53M
  2. 197041.48M
  3. 198052.49M
  4. 199065.5M
  5. 200077.15M
  6. 201087.46M
  7. 202098.08M
  8. 2025101.6M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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