Posted on 06/05/2025 9:59:05 PM PDT by Morgana
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam abolished its long-standing two-child limit Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population.
The National Assembly passed amendments scrapping rules that limit families to having one or two children, state media Vietnam News Agency reported Wednesday.
The rules were usually stricter for Communist Party members, who could miss out on promotions or bonuses if they had a third child.
Vietnamese families are having fewer children than ever before. The birth rate in 2021 was 2.11 children per woman, just over the replacement rate required for a population to avoid shrinking over the long term. Since then, the birth rate has steadily declined: to 2.01 in 2022, 1.96 in 2023 and 1.91 in 2024.
Vietnam isn’t the only Asian country with low fertility. But, unlike Japan, South Korea or Singapore, it is still a developing economy.
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Didn’t know that about Vietnam.
Nor did I.
Current birthrate among U.S. women CITIZENS is 1.6
Didn’t either. During the Vietnam war when we would enter a village we would be swarmed by smiling happy kids. I guess the swarms got considerably smaller since those long ago days.
Thank you for your service. 🙏
Elon Musk, albeit flawed in his approach…talks about that a lot. (birthrate)
The people who twiddle the knobs of entire populations seem unaware of the PID controller or its purpose.
Well, gee whiz…. Vietnam should import hordes of muzzie “refugees” and “migrants”, then…. After all, it’s only “fair” that THEY get to experience and enjoy the thrill of unrestricted immigration…. And then they’ll have PLENTY of people making babies to “do the work that Vietnamese won’t do…”
Oh wait… that only applies to “racist” White countries…. I forgot…
Considering it takes about 18 years to replace a WORKING AND PRODUCTIVE adult, just where did the proponents of these child limits per family think the future population was going to come from? 18 years.
Didn’t know that about Vietnam.
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I discussed the so called limit of two children in Viet Nam with my nail technician yesterday and she claims Viet Nam has no such limit.
I’d say 100 million Vietnamese is too damn many already.
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