Population:

83,535,576

Age structure:

0-14 years: 27.9% (male 12,065,777/female 11,212,299)
15-64 years: 66.4% (male 27,406,456/female 28,024,250)
65 years and over: 5.8% (male 1,889,585/female 2,937,209)

Population growth rate:

1.04%

Birth rate:

17.07 births/1,000 population

Death rate:

6.2 deaths/1,000 population

Sex ratio:

at birth: 1.08 male (s)/female
under 15 years: 1.08 male (s)/female
15-64 years: 0.98 male (s)/female
65 years and over: 0.64 male (s)/female
total population: 0.98 male (s)/female

Life expectancy at birth:

total population: 70.61 years
male: 67.82 years
female: 73.6 years

Nationality:

noun: Vietnamese (singular and plural)
adjective: Vietnamese

Ethnic groups:

Kinh (Viet) 86.2%, Tay 1.9%, Thai 1.7%, Muong 1.5%, Khmer 1.4%, Hoa 1.1%, Nun 1.1%, Hmong 1%, others 4.1%

Religions:

Buddhist 9.3%, Catholic 6.7%, Cao Dai 1.1%, Protestant 0.5%, Muslim 0.1%, none 80.8%

Languages:

Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favoured as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)