A national online conference convened by the Ministry of Public Security on November 18 shed light on pressing drug-related issues in Việt Nam, revealing an alarming trend among younger drug users.
The health ministry is strongly disputing that it is considering a policy which will punish those who remain unmarried, which has been spreading across social media.
The total fertility rate nationwide is showing a downward trend below the replacement level, from 2.11 children per woman in 2021 to 2.01 children per woman in 2022 and 1.96 children per woman last year. It was the lowest decline since 2006 and is forecast to continue.
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.
This is seen as a radical change compared to the current Population Ordinance, which called for each couple or individual to have “one to two children.”
Domestic individual investors hold more than 7.98 million accounts for securities trading as of the end of June, or 8% of Vietnam’s population, according to statistics supplied by the Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation.