Vietnam records population growth rate of 1.33%
Particularly, the fatality rate among babies under 12 months has reduced to approximately 25 per thousand, said Le Thi Thu, the Commission's chairwoman.
As a practical goal, each couple in
Over the past 45 years, the Party and the State have formulated many policies and resolutions aiming to speed up the implementation of population and family planning programmes. The first decision on guiding the practice of birth-control was issued by the Prime Minister on December 26, 1961 when the majority of the world did not still pay much attention to the population issue.
Accordingly, the birth rate in
The concerted efforts made by the Party, the State and the whole community in the population task over the past years have been supported by international organisations, particularly the United Nations Population Fund, which presented Vietnam a certificate of merit in 2000.