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VIETNAM
Population
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Nationality:
noun:
Vietnamese (singular and plural)
adjective:
Vietnamese
Ethnic
groups: Vietnamese 85%-90%, Chinese 3%, Muong, Tai, Meo, Khmer, Man,
Cham
Khmer,
Thai, and Nung
Vietnamese,
known as Viet or Kinh Vietnamese-speaking lowlanders, account for 87.5
percent of population and the remainder were Hoa or members of highland
minority groups (1979 figures). Fifty-three minorities account for
remainder, including Hoa, Tay, Thai, Khmer, Muong, Nung, Hmong, and numerous
mountain tribes.
The ethnic
Vietnamese are concentrated largely in the alluvial deltas and in the coastal
plains, having little in common with the minority peoples of the highlands,
whom they historically have regarded as hostile and barbaric. A homogenous
social group, the Vietnamese exert influence on national life through their
control of political and economic affairs and their role as purveyors of
the dominant culture. By contrast, the ethnic minorities, except
for the Hoa, are found mostly in the highlands that cover two-thirds of
the national territory. The Hoa, the largest minority, are mainly
lowlanders. Officially, the ethnic minorities are referred to as
national minorities. (December 1987)
Population:
78,773,873
(July 2000 est.)
In the
1980s, Vietnam was the world's third-largest communist country (ranking
below China and the Soviet Union and above Poland) and the most densely
populated.
Census
results of October 1979 showed the total population of reunified Vietnam
to be 52.7 million of which 52 percent lived in the North and 48 percent
in the South. Females outnumbered males by 3 percent. With
52 percent of the total under 20 years of age, the population was young.
In December 1986, Hanoi estimated that more than 1 million Vietnamese lived
overseas, 50 percent of them in the United States. A Vietnamese source
in Paris claimed that about half of Ho Chi Minh City's population lived
completely or partially on family aid packages sent by Vietnamese emigres
abroad.
Age
structure:
0-14
years: 33% (male 13,353,828; female 12,516,289)
15-64
years: 62% (male 23,691,412; female 24,951,397)
65 years
and over: 5% (male 1,696,708; female 2,564,239) (2000 est.)
Population
growth rate: 1.49% (2000 est.)
Birth
rate: 21.62 births/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Death
rate: 6.26 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.)
Average
Life Expectancy at Birth: 66 for females and 63 for males
Sex
ratio: 0.97 male(s)/female (2000 est.) total population
Infant
mortality rate: 31.13 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.)
Life
expectancy at birth: 69.27 years total population
male:
66.84 years
female:
71.87 years (2000 est.)
Total
fertility rate: 2.53 children born/woman (2000 est.)
Links
to More Information
CIA
World Factbook: Vietnam People
World
Population
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Sources:
Central
Intelligence Agency
Vietnam:
A Country Study
Consular
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