UN agency provides Vietnam with birth control aid
July 11, 2007
The United Nations Population Fund will provide Vietnam with US$1.45 million in birth control supplies to aid the country’s family planning strategy for the 2006-08 period.
An agreement to the effect was signed between the fund (UNFPA) and the Viet Nam Committee for Population, Family and Children in Ha Noi, on July 11.
The package will include 500,000 intra-uterine devices(IUDs), 500,000 bottles of intravenous contraception and more than 4 million packets of oral contraceptive pills that are worth a combined $1.3 million. The remainder of the funding will be used for public awareness campaigns.
Vietnam is experiencing a new baby boom with some 1.6 million infants born each year to its youthful population. The boom is expected to put pressure on infrastructure in the densely populated country.
The number of newborn babies in 2007 is expected to be exceptionally high because most Vietnamese consider the Golden Pig year to be a lucky one. The number of babies born in the first quarter of 2007 was 5.5 per cent higher than the same period last year.
Vietnam’s population is already one of the youngest in Asia, with some 54 percent of the population under age 30 and 26 percent under age 15.
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The number of Vietnamese women of child-bearing age increased 12.5 percent from 21.5 million people in 1989 to 24.2 million in 2005. The figure is expected to be 27 million people by 2020.
The government’s General Statistics Office predicts that the country’s population will exceed 100 million people by 2024, with the population density reaching 335 people per square kilometer.
Vietnam now has a population of more than 84 million people, ranking 13th in the world. The country’s population density is 252 people per square kilometer, nearly double that of China.
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