Vietnam’s population hit 85.8 million
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By April 1, 2009, Vietnam had 85.789 million people, of which 49.5 percent were men and 50.5 percent women. Vietnam is the third most-populated country in Southeast Asia and 13th in the world, announced the General Statistics Office’s chief Nguyen Duc Hoa on August 13.
According to the General Statistics Department, in the last ten years (1999-2009), Vietnam’s population increased by 9.47 million, at an annual population growth rate of 1.2 percent, compared to 1.7 percent in the 1989-1999 period.
The census conducted this April revealed that the country’s women/men ratio is 100/98.1 compared to 100/96.7 in 1999.
Of the total population, 25.3 million live in urban areas and nearly 65 million in the countryside. Therefore, in ten years, the urban population rose by 3.4 percent a year and it was 0.4 percent for the countryside due to immigration and urbanisation.
All results of the census will be made public in September 2010.
Source:vietnamnet.vn
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