Vietnam will focus on shifting from family planning to a developed population policy.

On July 11, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Health held a rally to respond to World Population Day (July 11) and celebrate 30 years of implementing the Action Program on population and development.

At the rally, Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the National Steering Committee for Population and Development, stated that in order to fulfill the goals in Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW of the Party on population work in the new situation and the Vietnam Population Strategy to 2030, the Ministry of Health has chosen the theme "Investing in population work is investing in sustainable development" to call on all levels, sectors, international organizations, and development partners to continue to pay attention and invest in Vietnam's population work, contributing to the country's rapid and sustainable development.

Minister of Health Dao Hong Lan speaks at the rally

In the coming time, the Ministry of Health will continue to research and evaluate the current status of population work and factors affecting the country's sustainable development, to advise competent authorities on socio -economic development orientation, especially policies related to population aging and fertility rate reduction. At the same time, focus on developing the Population Law project with the goal of shifting the policy focus from family planning to population and development, expected to be submitted to the Government in December 2024 and to the National Assembly in October 2025.

"Vietnam has no experience in encouraging increased fertility in low fertility areas and adapting to population aging, in the context of many limitations in investment resources. Therefore, I hope the international community will share and support financial resources and technical assistance from the international community," the Minister of Health emphasized and requested that ministries, functional branches and People's Committees of provinces and cities pay attention to leading and directing population work, integrating population factors into local socio-economic development policies and projects.

According to Mr. Le Thanh Dung, Director of the Department of Population, along with the achievements, population work is facing many challenges. The most worrying thing is that from 2020 to now, there has been a trend of low birth rates in the southern provinces and cities, causing the national birth rate in 2023 to drop to 1.96 children/woman, the lowest in history and is forecast to continue to decrease in the following years. Along with that, the rate of population aging in Vietnam is very fast. Since 2011, Vietnam has officially entered the population aging stage and is one of the countries with the fastest aging rate in the world. It is forecasted that by 2038, Vietnam will enter the period of aging population, meaning that 1 in 5 people will be over 60 years old.

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/viet-nam-se-tap-trung-chuyen-tu-ke-hoach-hoa-gia-dinh-sang-chinh-sach-dan-so-phat-trien-post748891.html