Music event celebrates Vietnam’s 90 million population

The program aims to popularise all people with achievements, opportunities and challenges when Vietnam’s population hits 90 million as well as promote love and pride of the nation.

In her speech, National Assembly (NA) Vice Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said Vietnam’s population growth reaching the level of 90 million is an important event, opening up new opportunities for national development.

Vietnam’s large population and abundant labour force have created both opportunities and challenges for the country.

The country has officially entered a period of “golden population structure” with more than 62 million people in the working age, accounting for 69 percent of total population which provides abundant labour force for it to speed up socio-economic development.

Ngan also emphasised the importance of family planning which is one of the important factors in ensuring a rapid and sustainable national development.

Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien also highlighted population and family planning as important part of the national development strategy and one of top priorities for socio-economic development.

Vietnam’s achievement in population and family planning work over the last half century has contributed to implementing millennium development goals (MDGs).

Population targets have been met with the ratio of birth replacement maintained for years (2.05 children), life expectancy of 73 and population growth dropping to 1.06 percent.

The same day, over 2,000 people, including students, workers, armed forces and retirees on November 2 joined a march in Ho Chi Minh City to mark the occasion the country’s population reached 90 million.

Organised by the Ministry of Public Health, the event aims to raise public awareness of the important role of the population and family planning work in the country’s sustainable development.

It also serves as a call for solidarity among the Vietnamese to safeguard the country’s sovereignty over the sea and islands, while demonstrating their determination in the national construction and defence.