Demographics of Vietnam

Population	94,515,000 (on July 28, 2016)
Growth rate	1.08% (2016 est.)
Birth rate	16.2 births/1000 population (2015 est.)
Death rate	6.81 deaths/1000 population (2015 est.)
Life expectancy	75.6 years (2016 est.)
• male	71.3 years (2016 est.)
• female	80.7 years (2016 est.)
Fertility rate	2.10 births/woman (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate	14.73 deaths/1000 live births (2015 est.)
0–14 years	24.6% (male 11,931,623/female 10,807,661) (2011 est.)
15–64 years	69.8% (male 31,301,879/female 31,419,306) (2011 est.)
65 and over	5.5% (male 1,921,652/female 3,092,589) (2011 est.)
At birth	1.122 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.1 male(s)/female
15–64 years	1 male (s)/female
65 and over	0.62 male(s)/female
Nationality	noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural) adjective: Vietnamese
Major ethnic	Kinh (Viet) (85.7%)
Minor ethnic	Tay (1.9%), Thai (1.8%), Muong (1.5%), Khmer (1.5%), Mong (1.2%), Nung (1.1%), others (5.3%)
Official	Vietnamese language
Spoken	Vietnamese and many minority and mountain area languages

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Vietnam, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Originating in northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese people pushed southward over two millennia to occupy the entire eastern seacoast of the Indochinese Peninsula. Ethnic Vietnamese, or Viet (known officially as Kinh), live in the lowlands and speak the Vietnamese language. This group dominates much of the cultural and political landscape of Vietnam.

Census (01/04/2009) :

Estimates (01/07/2014) :

The total fertility rate of Vietnam has been influenced by the government's family planning policy, the two-child policy.

Source: General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

The Vietnamese government recognizes 54 ethnic groups, of which the Viet (Kinh) is the largest; according to official Vietnamese figures (1999 census), ethnic Vietnamese account for 86% of the nation's population. The ethnic Vietnamese inhabit a little less than half of Vietnam, while the ethnic minorities inhabit the majority of Vietnam's land (albeit the least fertile parts of the country).

The Khmer Krom are found in the delta of the Mekong River, in the south of Vietnam, where they form in many areas the majority of the rural population. They live in an area which was previously part of Cambodia and which Vietnam conquered in the 17th and 18th centuries. Official Vietnamese figures put the Khmer Krom at 1 million people. Vietnam's approximately 1 million ethnic Chinese, constitute one of Vietnam's largest minority groups. Long important in the Vietnamese economy, Vietnamese of Chinese ancestry have been active in rice trading, milling, real estate, and banking in the south and shopkeeping, stevedoring, and mining in the north. Restrictions on economic activity following reunification in 1975 and the subsequent but unrelated general deterioration in Vietnamese-Chinese relations sent chills through the Chinese-Vietnamese community.

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