Quoc Ngoc
Many women in the city are now reluctant to have babies - Photo: Quoc Ngoc
According to the division, the average number of children for one woman in the city is quite low, with the rate of 1.5 children per mother. Meanwhile, the national ratio is 2-2.1 children per mother.
The birth ratio of the city is now nearly 0.9%, or nine babies are born every year for a population of 1,000.
Another important issue needed to be promoted in the new population policy, said the division, is to minimize the imbalance in baby gender.
Vietnam since 1990 has been strongly asking each married couple to stop at two children, for fear of the boom in population, which was expected by experts in the field to reach 105 million by 2010.
By late last year, the country population had reached 90 million.
The country was predicted earlier by the General Statistics Office to start having population ageing in 2017, yet in 2011, it started to be in the shift with the number of people over 65 years old accounting for 7% of the population.
Đăng ký: VietNam News