Vietnam
Vietnam in numbers
38 measures of Vietnam from 1800 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending2.15% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$10.9B in 2025
- Military spending per person$104 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9.9% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel522,000 people in 2020
- National power1.11% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.95% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports177 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports10 million TIV in 2018
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Vietnam with…
- Vietnam vs India
- Vietnam vs China
- Vietnam vs United States
- Vietnam vs Indonesia
- Vietnam vs Pakistan
- Vietnam vs Nigeria
- Vietnam vs Brazil
- Vietnam vs Bangladesh
- Vietnam vs Russia
- Vietnam vs Ethiopia
- Vietnam vs Mexico
- Vietnam vs Japan
- Vietnam vs Egypt
- Vietnam vs Philippines
- Vietnam vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Vietnam vs Iran
- Vietnam vs Türkiye
- Vietnam vs Germany
- Vietnam vs Thailand
- Vietnam vs Tanzania
- Vietnam vs United Kingdom
- Vietnam vs France
- Vietnam vs South Africa
- Vietnam vs Italy
- Vietnam vs Kenya
- Vietnam vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Vietnam vs Colombia
- Vietnam vs South Korea
- Vietnam vs Sudan
- Vietnam vs Spain
- Vietnam vs Argentina
- Vietnam vs Canada
- Vietnam vs Saudi Arabia
- Vietnam vs Poland
- Vietnam vs Malaysia
- Vietnam vs Australia
- Vietnam vs North Korea
- Vietnam vs Netherlands
- Vietnam vs Cambodia
- Vietnam vs Belgium
- Vietnam vs United Arab Emirates
- Vietnam vs Papua New Guinea
- Vietnam vs Sweden
- Vietnam vs Israel
- Vietnam vs Austria
- Vietnam vs Switzerland
- Vietnam vs Laos
- Vietnam vs Singapore
- Vietnam vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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