The Mekong Delta got 3% of Viet Nam's population growth
Change in average population by socio-economic region, millions, 2011 to 2025. Viet Nam: 88.1 million to 102.3 million.
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- 3. South Korea now has a quarter of its 1971 births
- 4. China's population is projected to more than halve by 2100
- 5. Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153
- 6. Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven
- 7. More Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else
- 8. Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement
- 9. Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level
- 10. Brazil now has more people over 65 than Germany
- 11. 34 countries and territories are past their population peak
- 12. Chile's fertility rate fell below Italy's and Japan's
- 13. Thailand's births have fallen below its deaths
- 14. Women hold at least half the seats in seven parliaments
- 15. Child marriage in South Asia has nearly halved since 2005
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- 17. Sri Lanka's population has shrunk three years in a row
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- 24. Cuba now has more people over 65 than children
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- 26. Most of East Asia's big cities lost people since 2020
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- 28. Sub-Saharan Africa added 13 million births a year since 2000
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- 31. The Mekong Delta got 3% of Viet Nam's population growth
people added by the Mekong Delta from 2011 to 2025, 17.2 to 17.6 million: under 3% of Viet Nam's rise of 14.2 million.
the Mekong Delta's share of Viet Nam's people. It was the third-biggest region in 2011 and is fourth now, behind the South East.
Mekong Delta provinces have fewer people than in 2011. An Giang lost 183,000, Dong Thap 51,000, Soc Trang 47,000, Hau Giang 40,000.
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General Statistics Office of Viet Nam (national statistics office), PX-Web table E02.01 'Area, population and population density by province', latest period 2025, average population in thousand persons, read from the GSO PX-Web via the progrss vault (§4.11, gso-vietnam passes value_checks). Six socio-economic regions as the GSO publishes them (they add up exactly to the national figure: 88,145.8 thousand in 2011 and 102,345.3 thousand in 2025). Changes (progrss calculation; the parts add up exactly): South East +4.503 million (15.01 to 19.51), Red River Delta +4.094 (20.22 to 24.31), Northern midlands and mountain areas +2.178 (11.31 to 13.49), North Central and Central Coast +1.986 (19.12 to 21.10), Central Highlands +1.033 (5.28 to 6.31), Mekong River Delta +0.405 (17.22 to 17.62); total +14.199 million. Mekong share 19.53% (2011) and 17.22% (2025), 2.85% of the national rise. Region rank by population: Mekong third in 2011, fourth in 2025. Of the 13 Mekong provinces, four lost people between 2011 and 2025 (An Giang 2,097.5 to 1,914.5 thousand; Dong Thap 1,653.2 to 1,602.3; Soc Trang 1,273.9 to 1,226.6; Hau Giang 752.7 to 712.6). Values are the GSO's yearly average-population estimates, 2025 the latest; provinces are shown with the 2011–2025 boundaries (before the 2025 merger of provinces). No cause is claimed; the numbers do not say whether people moved or had fewer children. Licence not stated by GSO: plates only, not for data products.
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