(VOV) -The General Department of Population and Family Planning (GDPFP) forecasts Vietnam’s population will number 91.3 million in 2015, below the targeted maximum 93 million.
GDPFP Director Duong Quoc Trong said although disparities in the sex ratio at birth have been narrowed, it still averages 112.6 boys to 100 girls.
In 2014, the population sector will expand its interventions into redressing the problematic sex ratio at birth imbalance, he said.
In a recent interview with the press, GDPFP Deputy Director Le Canh Nhac noted Vietnam’s population is aging at one of the world’s five fastest rates and the country will lack human resources for national development in the coming decades.
He said his organization now encourages couples to have a maximum of two children instead of the old motto of “each couple should have one or two children” to meet the labour demand and slow down population aging.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
