Viet Nam plans to stabilize population

Viet Nam recently set a target of achieving replacement level fertility (2.1 children per woman) by the middle of this century in order to stabilize the country’s population at between 115 million and 120 million.

Besides setting out the goal through Decision 47-NQ/TU, dated 22 March, the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Viet Nam’s Central Committee also called for improving the quality of life physically, intellectually and spiritually for the country’s citizens, according to the Viet Nam News Service.

It urged continued efforts to promote dissemination of information and education to usher in a profound change in public awareness and thinking on population issues. The whole society should be encouraged to accept and follow the two-child family model, the resolution stated.

It called for overhauling reproductive health care and family planning services and making preferential investments to upgrade health care and infrastructural facilities and improve the qualifications of medical workers.