Data · Growth & economic structure
GDP per capita (current US$): Vietnam, 1985–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 5,066 USD
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- NY.GDP.PCAP.CD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Gross domestic product is the total income earned through the production of goods and services in an economic territory during an accounting period. It can be measured in three different ways: using either the expenditure approach, the income approach, or the production approach. The core indicator has been divided by the general population to achieve a per capita estimate.This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1985 to 2025 (41 years of data). It moved from 239 to 5,066 USD, a change of 2,022.8%. The highest value was 5,066 in 2025 and the lowest 98 in 1989. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,066 |
| 2024 | 4,717 |
| 2023 | 4,323 |
| 2022 | 4,148 |
| 2021 | 3,704 |
| 2020 | 3,534 |
| 2019 | 3,441 |
| 2018 | 3,222 |
| 2017 | 2,956 |
| 2016 | 2,735 |
| 2015 | 2,578 |
| 2014 | 2,546 |
| 2013 | 2,360 |
| 2012 | 2,185 |
| 2011 | 1,951 |
| 2010 | 1,683 |
| 2009 | 1,226 |
| 2008 | 1,164 |
| 2007 | 926 |
| 2006 | 808 |
| 2005 | 711 |
| 2004 | 565 |
| 2003 | 497 |
| 2002 | 445 |
| 2001 | 419 |
| 2000 | 404 |
| 1999 | 376 |
| 1998 | 361 |
| 1997 | 362 |
| 1996 | 337 |
| 1995 | 288 |
| 1994 | 230 |
| 1993 | 189 |
| 1992 | 145 |
| 1991 | 144 |
| 1990 | 99 |
| 1989 | 98 |
| 1988 | 405 |
| 1987 | 595 |
| 1986 | 436 |
| 1985 | 239 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 5,066 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 8,057 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 5,060 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 13,125 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 4,171 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 98,814 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 2,872 |
| Laos | 2025 | 2,325 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 1,489 |
| China | 2025 | 13,862 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). GDP per capita (current US$), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name ny_gdp_pcap_cd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.