The poverty rate in Viet Nam has been reduced by more than half. Viet Nam has far exceeded the Millennium Development Goal of “halving, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than 1 dollar a day. Even though things are going good for Vietnam, there’s always going to be something that tries to bring them down. New poverty are forming such as chronic poverty, urban poverty, child poverty and poor migrants. The good thing about this whole thing is that they are improving, but they still have to deal with some extra things. 

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Over the past decade, Vietnam has continued to promote universal primary education. The literacy rate among people over 10 years of age has increased dramatically in the past decade. About 97% of students completed 5 years of primary education. To me, that’s huge for a country that does not have much to offer or money. The good thing about this is that almost half of these students are girls. Not only that, but according to the law, pupils at primary education level in public schools are not required to pay tuition fees. This is a good thing for those who can not provide school because of their economic issues. The only thing that they would have to pay for is transportation and uniform which isn’t so bad. It turns out that Vietnam has been very successful with girl’s primary and secondary education level.

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Viet Nam has one of the highest rates of representation of women in decision making in national parliament in the region. Viet Nam has been recognized as having no gender gap in education access. Women play an important role in the Vietnamese economy accounting for 46.6% of the active workforce. Viet Nam is closing the gender gap at a faster rate than almost any other country in Southeast Asia. It looks like Vietnam has already achieved infants mortality. The infant mortality rate was reduced from 44.4 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 16 in 2009. The The rates of child mortality has been halved since 1990. We all can say that they’re doing a great job of improving, but in order for them to continue this route, they have to focus particularly on neonatal mortality and stunting.

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One of the most important factor of this goal is the fact that about 60 percent of children under the age of one die because of neonatal mortality. To be able to stop that from happening, they need to train more staffs and monitor the pregnancy. Most of the time, these neonatal mortality are caused because the pregnant women doesn’t have access to local health services so they can’t take good care of themselves. I think that it’s very important for Vietnam to be more focus on this target because children are dying.



Maternal mortality has decreased by approximately two thirds in Viet Nam. Viet Nam also witnessed progress in mothers' healthcare. Facilities, hospitals, clinics and training of medical staff have been gradually improved to provide accessible reproductive health care services to every mother. In order to reduce maternal mortality live births by 2015, Vietnam needs to put even more effort into implementing its policies and programes. Even though maternal health has improved, the efforts towards these targets still need to be reached. It’s very important for Vietnam to improve their knowledge and skills to perform better births.



HIV/AIDS doesn’t seem to be a huge issue in Vietnam. It turns out that they have successfully controlled the incidence of malaria. During the past 15 years, malaria victims have decreased by 83 percent. Viet Nam has essentially restrained the HIV growth rate to under 0.3 percent. HIV incidence remains mainly within the 20-39 age group, accounting for 80 percent of total cases. Prevention, treatment, care and support, and community integration of people living with HIV played significant role in achievements gained by Viet Nam. Although Vietnam has reach most of their targets, they still need to work on some things. They need to focus on the critical areas of HIV and how to prevent it.



In the past 10 years, environmental protection and sustainable development institutions and regimes have been established and goals incorporated into national policies and development programmes. Today, about 83 per cent of the rural population has access to safe water. The only problem that Vietnam has is that they don’t have access to cleaner water from the two regions of rural area and the urban area. Vietnam tends to have a lot of flood, natural disasters or typhoons. So one of their main goals is to watch the climate change and find a method to increase their safety. In order for this to happen, it would cost more money for Vietnam. This country does have a good head on its shoulder but it needs a little more work on environmental issues.



Vietnam has been considered one of the poorest country in the nation. For about 3 years, Vietnam has improved, but their progress has been a bit slow. Efforts to develop global partnerships for development have helped Viet Nam secure foreign direct investment (FDI). Viet Nam has successfully taken advantage of her opportunities and obtained important achievements in economic growth. Viet Nam is one of the world's top exporters of products such as rice, coffee, pepper and cashew nuts. Viet Nam's import and export market has been growing rapidly towards diversification and shifting from indirect transactions to direct transactions in the American, European and Japanese markets. Production for export has been moving towards increasing processed products, reducing raw products, and diversifying goods. Overall, Vietnam has been on the right track with meeting the MDG.