Alarmingly falling birth rate in HCM City worried authorities as falling birth rates in the city could spell disaster for economic growth and welfare systems.

Vietnam currently has 33 provinces with high birth rates, including many economically developed localities.

Vietnam has seen the disparity in the birth rate among localities with the falling rate reported in cities and urban areas.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a birth rate adjustment programme towards 2030 which encourages people to get married before the age of 30 and women to give birth to the second child before they get 35 years old.

Vietnam’s population and family planning work in 2019 faced difficulties, especially in communications due to decreased funding, heard a conference in Hanoi on January 9.

An estimated 4,259 babies will be born in Vietnam on New Year’s Day, UNICEF said today. Vietnamese babies will account for over one per cent of the estimated 392,078 babies to be born on New Year’s Day.

Vietnam will have 4.3 million more men in the next 30 years due to an increasing gender imbalance.

The number of babies being born in Ho Chi Minh City continues to fall to a low birth rate of 1.33 children per family.