According to this, Vietnam will shift from family planning to population and development, and place emphasis on the scale, structure, distribution and quality of the population. This is intended to guarantee stable socio-economic development and national security. The new population development plan is aimed at balancing genders, capitalising on the golden population, adapting the elderly population and consistently distributing the population for development. Each married couple are encouraged to have two children should be further spread to ensure that there are nearly 104 million people nationwide by 2030.
