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65
years and over: 5.6%
(male 1,892,505/female 3,039,078)
(2010 est.)
Median
age:
total: 27.4
years
male: 26.4
years
female: 28.5
years (2010 est.)
Population
growth rate:
1.096%
(2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:117
Birth
rate:
17.29
births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:118
Death rate:
5.97 deaths/1,000
population (July 2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:167
Net migration rate:
-0.37 migrant(s)/1,000
population (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:137
Urbanization:
urban population: 28%
of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization:
3.1%
annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.115
male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.1
male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99
male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.62
male(s)/female
total population: 0.99
male(s)/female (2010 est.)
Infant mortality
rate:
total: 21.57
deaths/1,000 live births
country
comparison to the world:95
male: 21.95
deaths/1,000 live births
female: 21.15
deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
Life expectancy at
birth:
total population: 71.94
years
country
comparison to the world:128
male: 69.48
years
female: 74.69
years (2010 est.)
Total fertility
rate:
1.93 children
born/woman (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:140
HIV/AIDS - adult
prevalence rate:
0.5% (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:73
HIV/AIDS - people
living with HIV/AIDS:
290,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:24
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
24,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:20
Major infectious
diseases:
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne
diseases: bacterial
diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases:
dengue
fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and plague
water contact
disease: leptospirosis
note:highly
pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in
this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely
rare cases possible among US citizens who have close
contact with birds (2009)
Nationality:
noun: Vietnamese
(singular and plural)
adjective: Vietnamese
Ethnic groups:
Kinh (Viet) 86.2%,
Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khome 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%,
Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1% (1999 census)
Religions:
Buddhist 9.3%,
Catholic 6.7%, Hoa Hao 1.5%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant
0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8% (1999 census)
Languages:
Vietnamese
(official), English (increasingly favored as a second
language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain
area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
Literacy:
definition: age
15 and over can read and write
total population: 90.3%
male: 93.9%
female: 86.9%
(2002 est.)
School life
expectancy (primary to tertiary education):
In
1998, Vietnam had a population of over 76,000,000 and of these most of them lived around the Red and Mekong
deltas, where the
population density is around 1000 people per sq km.
The population is made up of
mainly ethnic Vietnamese people (those whose ancestors moved to the area
thousands of years before) who have settled in the lowlands, while the largest minority group
consists of ethnic Chinese. The Chinese immigrants (those whose families
settled in the area within the last few hundred years) have settled for the most part in cities and provincial towns and
consist of around 2,000,000 total population.
In
addition to the ethnic Chinese, there are other minorities that live in Vietnam
namely the Khmer and the Cham, descendents of inhabitants who lived in central
and southern Vietnam before the area was conquered by the Vietnamese.
Another portion of the population is made up of tribal groups, who as a whole
represent about 7% of Vietnam's entire population. Their ancestors came
into Vietnam from other Asian countries. These tribes make up about 50
different language and ethnic groups and live mainly in the mountainous area
around the Red River Delta and in the Central Highlands.
Although
the different ethics groups get along for the most part, the Vietnamese tend to
show antipathy towards
the dominance ethnic Chinese have in the national economy. To
further aggravate the situation, Vietnamese tend to be wary of China for their
past domination in various parts of the country and take it out occasionally on the
Chinese citizens of Vietnam.
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