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Vietnam Offers Cash, Housing, and Leave Incentives to Raise Birth Rate
A population law effective July 1 provides maternity leave, subsidies, bonuses up to US$228 and housing priority to raise birth rates. Vietnam's fertility rate reached 1.93 births per woman in 2025, below the 2.1 replacement level.
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Vietnam has introduced cash bonuses, extended maternity leave and housing priority under a new population law aimed at raising its fertility rate, which stood at 1.93 births per woman in 2025, still below the 2.1 replacement level. The law took effect on July 1 after the country's two-child policy was scrapped last year.
It offers seven months of maternity leave for second children, subsidized prenatal and newborn screenings, cash bonuses of up to 6 million dong (US$228) and priority housing for young parents who have two children before age 35.
91 births per woman in 2024 and rose to 1.93 in 2025, remaining below the 2.1 replacement rate required to sustain the population. Nearly one in seven Vietnamese is older than 60. The Health Ministry has set a target of reaching replacement fertility by 2030.
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