Exports reached USD 76.4bn (+18.3% YoY), while imports grew faster (+26.3% YoY), reflecting rising demand for inputs in the new production cycle. Investment remained a key driver, with public investment disbursement and FDI maintaining growth.

In 2025, Vietnam recorded peak-cycle growth, with GDP expanding by 8.02% year on year—one of the highest rates in nearly three decades—well above regional averages and most international forecasts, despite weakening global growth, rising uncertainty, and mounting domestic exchange-rate pressures.

According to the GSO, only around 5,000 SMEs are engaged in the global supply chain–just 0.001 per cent of the total number of business

Vietnam’s GDP growth forecast for 2023 has been adjusted in the context of many key growth drivers being put under major external pressure.

With the Government’s initiatives to address disappointing GDP growth in the first quarter and likely to increase in the second half of the

The Singapore-based UOB has kept its forecast for Vietnam's GDP growth in 2023 unchanged at 6.6% in line with the official forecast of 6.5%

While global uncertainty persists, Vietnam's prospects are reassuring as the economy continues to be among the world's fastest-growing.

Vietnam's economic recovery has continued despite heightened economic uncertainties regarding higher global inflation and a slowing economy.