In 2025, Viet Nam’s economy reached a cyclical peak, with GDP growth accelerating to 8.02%—one of the highest rates recorded in nearly three decades—despite a backdrop of weakening global growth and heightened uncertainty. Growth momentum was broadly based across all three pillars of aggregate demand, underpinned by accommodative monetary conditions, early credit expansion, a renewed leadership role of public investment, and record-high disbursement of FDI inflows.

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National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man revealed that 60-70% of the more than 10,000 communes will be merged.

According to a biannual survey, German businesses in Vietnam are more confident about growth and have positive expectations

Vietnam is hoping to become a country with a high average income by 2030 and in the group of countries with a high income worldwide by 2045

Vietnam has set a target of increasing its green economy's contribution to GDP from 6.7 billion USD in 2020 to 300 billion USD by 2050

Greenhouse gas emissions in Việt Nam increased rapidly over the past three decades in direct proportion to the economy’s growth.