Viet Nam
Viet Nam in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
Viet Nam recorded GDP per capita: 5,066 (2025), ranking 138 of 212 worldwide; Population: 101.60 million (2025), ranking 16 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 74.7 (2024), ranking 108 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 3.31% (2025), ranking 87 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+3552%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-80%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
It sits close to the world median across the measures below. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 10 of 19 comparable series are higher and 8 are lower.
Its population of 101.60 million (2025) makes it one of the larger populations in this dataset.
18 of 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later; the remaining 1 end earlier because the underlying collection is less frequent.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 514,697,215,165.07 | 2025 | +3551.7% |
| GDP per capita | 5,065.99 | 2025 | +2022.8% |
| GDP growth | 8.02% | 2025 | +110.7% |
| Population | 101,598,527 | 2025 | +212.3% |
| Population growth | 0.6% | 2025 | -77.3% |
| Urban population | 38.83% | 2025 | +154.4% |
| Life expectancy | 74.74 | 2024 | +28.8% |
| Infant mortality | 12 | 2024 | -80.3% |
| CO2 per capita | 4.27 | 2024 | +910.6% |
| GDP (PPP) | 1,837,764,100,907.65 | 2025 | +2219.2% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 18,088.49 | 2025 | +1395.3% |
| Labor participation | 72.78% | 2025 | -6.9% |
| Unemployment | 1.52% | 2025 | -28.8% |
| Inflation | 3.31% | 2025 | -41.7% |
| Internet users | 84.15% | 2024 | — |
| Electricity access | 100% | 2024 | +27.6% |
| Forest area | 47.45% | 2023 | +64.7% |
| Health spending | 4.56% | 2023 | +11.0% |
| Education spending | 2.89% | 2022 | -40.9% |