Data · Population & urbanization
Fertility rate, total (births per woman): Vietnam, 1960–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 1.90 births per woman
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1960 to 2024 (65 years of data). It moved from 6.27 to 1.90 births per woman, a change of -69.8%. The highest value was 6.39 in 1963 and the lowest 1.87 in 2006. 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 (births per woman) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.90 |
| 2023 | 1.91 |
| 2022 | 1.93 |
| 2021 | 1.94 |
| 2020 | 1.96 |
| 2019 | 1.94 |
| 2018 | 1.88 |
| 2017 | 1.99 |
| 2016 | 2.00 |
| 2015 | 2.10 |
| 2014 | 2.09 |
| 2013 | 1.98 |
| 2012 | 1.97 |
| 2011 | 1.93 |
| 2010 | 1.91 |
| 2009 | 1.92 |
| 2008 | 1.93 |
| 2007 | 1.91 |
| 2006 | 1.87 |
| 2005 | 1.89 |
| 2004 | 1.97 |
| 2003 | 2.00 |
| 2002 | 2.01 |
| 2001 | 2.02 |
| 2000 | 2.03 |
| 1999 | 2.00 |
| 1998 | 2.10 |
| 1997 | 2.27 |
| 1996 | 2.47 |
| 1995 | 2.70 |
| 1994 | 2.94 |
| 1993 | 3.17 |
| 1992 | 3.35 |
| 1991 | 3.52 |
| 1990 | 3.60 |
| 1989 | 3.64 |
| 1988 | 3.62 |
| 1987 | 3.72 |
| 1986 | 3.96 |
| 1985 | 4.21 |
| 1984 | 4.41 |
| 1983 | 4.52 |
| 1982 | 4.59 |
| 1981 | 4.67 |
| 1980 | 4.80 |
| 1979 | 4.94 |
| 1978 | 5.10 |
| 1977 | 5.29 |
| 1976 | 5.46 |
| 1975 | 5.62 |
| 1974 | 5.78 |
| 1973 | 6.11 |
| 1972 | 6.10 |
| 1971 | 6.07 |
| 1970 | 6.02 |
| 1969 | 6.01 |
| 1968 | 6.03 |
| 1967 | 5.88 |
| 1966 | 5.97 |
| 1965 | 6.16 |
| 1964 | 6.29 |
| 1963 | 6.39 |
| 1962 | 6.26 |
| 1961 | 5.48 |
| 1960 | 6.27 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 1.90 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 1.20 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 2.12 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 1.54 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 1.89 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 0.97 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 2.55 |
| Laos | 2024 | 2.40 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 2.10 |
| China | 2024 | 1.01 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Fertility rate, total (births per woman), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?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 sp_dyn_tfrt_in, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.