Decision No. 1679/QD-TTg 2019 approving Vietnam’s Strategy for Population toward 2030

DECISION

Approving Vietnam’s Strategy for Population toward 2030

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THE PRIME MINISTER

          Pursuant to the Law on the Organization of the Government dated June 19, 2015;

          Pursuant to the Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW of October 25, 2017 of the Sixth Conference of the 12^th Central Party Executive Committee, on population work in the new situation;

          Pursuant to the Government’s Resolution No. 137/NQ-CP dated December 31, 2017 promulgates the Program to implement the Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW of October 25, 2017 of the Sixth Conference of the 12^th Central Party Executive Committee, on population work in the new situation;

          At the proposal of the Minister of Health;

HEREBY DECIDES:

          Article 1. To approve Vietnam’s Strategy for Population toward 2030 with the following main contents:

          I. THE VIEWPOINTS AND OBJECTIVES

          1. Direction viewpoints

          Thoroughly grasp and fully implement the Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW dated October 25, 2017 of the Sixth Conference of 12th Central Party Executive Committee on Population Work in the new situation. To make all efforts to shift the focus of population policy from family planning to implementation and achievement of comprehensive objectives in terms of scale, structure, distribution, especially population quality in organic relations with economical, social, defense and security factors.

          2. Objectives

          a) General objectives:

          To make sustainable maintenance of the replacement - level fertility; bringing the sex ratio at birth to the natural balance level; to take the advantages of effects of golden population structure; to adapt to the population aging; to logically allocate the population and to improve the population quality, making contribution to the rapid and sustainable national development.

          b) Specific objectives to 2030:

          - Objective 1: To maintain the replacement - level fertility, to reduce the fertility gap among regions and subjects.

          + To make sustainable maintenance of the replacement - level fertility (with an average of 2.1 children per woman of reproductive age), a population of 104 million;

          + To decrease 50% of the fertility between rural and urban areas, mountainous areas and plains; 50% of the provinces reach the replacement - level fertility;

          + All women of reproductive age are conveniently accessible to the modern contraceptives, prevention of infertility and assisted reproduction;

+ To decrease two-thirds of adolescents and the young with unwanted pregnancies;

- Objective 2: To protect and develop the population of the ethnic minorities with less than 10 thousand people, especially the small ethnic minorities at risk of race declining.

+ To maintain the population growth rate of the ethnic minorities with less than 10 thousand people at higher level than that of national average;

+ To basically prevent the early marriages and consanguineous marriages in ethnic minority areas;

+ To ensure that the growth rate of indicators reflecting the quality of the population of ethnic minorities with less than 10 thousand people is higher than that of the national average.

- Objective 3: Bring the sex ratio at birth to the natural balance, striving to maintain the age structure at a reasonable level.

+ The sex ratio at birth is less than 109 boys/100 girls born alive

+ Rate of children under 15 years old reaches about 22%, the proportion of elderly people aging 65 and over reaches about 11%, the general dependency rate is about 49%.

          - Objective 4: Improve the quality of the population

          + The rate of young couples consulted and examined on health before marriage is 90%;

          + To reduce 50% of early marriage couples, to decrease 60% of consanguineous marriage couples;

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