The move responded to a record-low birth rate that has persisted below population replacement levels for three years, ...

A declining birth rate led lawmakers to approve a new policy on Tuesday that lifts the limit on the number of children many families may have.

A fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman is considered the “replacement level.” Fertility rates in Vietnam are relatively low — and falling — but the population has yet to begin dropping.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child limit on Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population.

Vietnam has scrapped its 37-year-old policy of limiting families to two children, as the country faces up to its ageing population and economic worries.

For example, neighboring China ended its one-child policy in 2016 and, since 2021, has allowed couples to have up to three children. Like many countries, Vietnam is also facing challenges with an ...

Vietnam’s population-control policy has roots that predate China’s one-child policy, which was introduced in 1979 and abandoned in 2016 for a two- and later three-child policy.

Vietnamese families are having fewer children than ever before. The birth rate in 2021 was 2.11 children per woman, just over the replacement rate required for a population to avoid shrinking ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child limit on Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population.

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam has abolished its long-standing two-child limit on Tuesday to try and reverse declining birth rates and ease the pressures of an aging population. The National ...

Vietnam scraps 2-child policy as aging threatens economic growth Vietnam has scrapped its long-standing two-child policy as birth rates fall and its population ages. Aniruddha Ghosal.