Vietnam's population sees big changes
According to Director of the Information Centre of the National Population, Family and Children Committee Nguyen Quoc Anh, in 2002, with the population growth rate standing at 1.32 percent, the country's economic accumulation rate reached 1.76 percent. In 2003, the economic accumulation rate was only 1.36 percent due to a population growth rate of 1.47 percent.
A low population growth rate of 1.33 percent resulted in the highest ever economic accumulation rate of 3 percent in 2005, Mr Anh added.
The population in the working age increased from 52.9 percent to 64.6 percent, bringing the country's population into the period of "golden population structure" with plentiful labour resources.
Nguyen Trong Phu, Director of the Information Technology Centre under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, reported that the number of successful job seekers in recent years increased in line with the increase of people entering the working age. Besides, people's living conditions and learning opportunities were improved, thus helping raise the working capacity of young people, he said.
The rate of people working in the industrial and construction sectors increased from 12.6 percent in 1996 to nearly 18 percent in 2005, and the rate of people working in the agro-forestry sector reduced from 70 percent to 57 percent.
