Vietnam expects to have a sex rate at birth of 112.8 boys per 100 girls and an average population of 94.7 million in 2018, heard a conference held by the General Office for Population - Family Planning in Hanoi on January 30.
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The office also aimed to maintain stability of replacement
fertility and improve the quality of population and health care for the
elderly.
The population growth rate is hoped to expand only 1 percent, while the rate of
modern contraception use is expected to be 67.4 percent.
Forty percent of pregnant women are set to receive prenatal screening. The
office also hoped to expand health insurance coverage to 100 percent of the
elderly in the year.
Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Viet Tien praised the
population sector for its efforts in recent years.
He asked the office to continue implementing the Government’s resolutions on
population.
Vietnam’s population reached 93.7 million last year, up 1.07 percent against
2016. The sex rate at birth stood at 112.4 boys/100 girls.
More than 912,000 elders got regular medical examinations and 92.8 percent of
elderly people had health insurance.
Source: VNA
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