Vietnam
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| Vietnam | |
 Flag of Vietnam | |
| Population (In Millions) | 86.93 |
| Human Development Index | 128/169 |
| Gross Domestic Product (In USD Billions - World Bank) | 106.43 |
| Global Peace Index | 30/153 |
| Happy Planet Index | 5/143 |
| Social Institutions and Gender Index | 42/86 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 85/163 |
| Child Mortality Rate | 18.6 |
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Official Statistics Office
Main Progress Initiatives
Development Progress Story: Viet Nam's progress on economic growth and poverty reduction - Impressive improvements
Vietnam's progress on economic growth and poverty reduction has been highlighted as a part the Overseas Development Institute's Development Progress Stories, an initiative looking at what is working in development and why. Key messages from the research include:
- Only 20 years ago, Viet Nam was among the poorest countries in the world. Having enjoyed an average annual GDP growth rate of 7% per year between 1990 and 2008, it is now set to join the ranks of middle-income countries by 2011.
- Equitable initial investments in human development set the foundations for substantial progress on economic conditions and human development. Under-five mortality rates declined from 56 to 14 deaths per 1,000 live births between 1990 and 2008.
- Pragmatic party leadership encouraging internal debate and trial-and-error approaches contributed to the adoption and implementation of an effective set of reform policies. These were instrumental in enabling progress.
Full report and summary case study can be viewed and downloaded here.
Child Well-being in Vietnam
The Young Lives study is conducted in Vietnam as well as in three other developing countries from 2001 to 2015. It is an international study of childhood poverty that is coordinated by a team in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford.
Happiness in Vietnam
This is an overview of findings on Happiness in Vietnam.The available findings are presented in the latest ‘Nation Report’ on Vietnam [1]. This report is ordered by type of happiness questions and within these types by year. This ordering is to facilitate the assessment of progress, comparison over time being most fruitful using the same questions.
The report presents means and standard deviations, both on the original scale range and transformed to a common range 0-10. The means inform about the level of happiness in the country and the standard deviations about inequality of happiness.
Links provide more detail about the precise text of the question, the full distribution of responses and technical details of the survey. The report is continuously updated.
Progress reports on Vietnam
- Vietnam urbanization review (World Bank April 2012)
