If Vietnam wants to increase the fertility rate, policies on working conditions, wages and job promotion need to be attractive enough to encourage marriage and fertility.

An international policy consultation workshop held in Hanoi on August 28 sounded the alarm on Vietnam's declining fertility rate, with experts highlighting the linkage between education level, economic conditions and birth rates.

If the gap in the number of boys and girls at birth in Vietnam continues to widen, it will severely impact people born after 2005. By 2030, of those of marriageable age, about 10 percent of men won’t find spouses.

Vietnam continued to see a fertility rate decrease in 2023. The low birth rate will cause consequences such as a rapid aging population and labor shortage. It will also affect social security.

If the fertility rate continues to decreases, Vietnam will begin seeing minus fertility growth rate after 2054 and the total population will fall to 72 million by 2100, experts have warned.

The economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic in the last three years has made many couples afraid of having children.

HCM City has continued witnessing a declining fertility rate, standing among 21 localities in the country with a low fertility rate.

People in areas with low fertility rates may receive a reward twice as much as the regions’ minimum wages if they have a second child.

Having only one child or no children has not become common in Vietnam, but it can be seen clearly in some provinces and regions.

Although Vietnam has obtained some achievements in improving the quality of its population, there is still room for improvement, said Do Xuan Tuyen, deputy minister of health.