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Destruction caused by the 1954-1975 Second Indochina War (commonly known as the Vietnam War) seriously strained Vietnam's economy. Across Vietnam, the situation was worsened by the country's 3 million military and civilian deaths and its later exodus of 2.1 million refugees, including tens of thousands of professionals, intellectuals ...
North and South Vietnam therefore remained divided until the Vietnam War ended with the Fall of Saigon in 1975. After 1976, the newly reunified Vietnam faced many difficulties including internal repression and isolation from the international community due to the Cold War , Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and an American economic embargo. [ 2 ]
Anhao Paper Factory, 1961. South Vietnam had a small industrial sector and fell far behind other countries in the region in this respect. [1] Output increased 2.5 to 3 times over the 20 years of the country's existence, but the share in total GDP remained at only around 10%, even dropping to 6% in some years, while the economy was dominated by strong agricultural and service sectors. [1]
The article lists Vietnam's province-level divisions by Gross regional domestic product (GRDP). Each province's GRDP is listed in both the national currency VND, and at nominal U.S. dollar values according to annual average exchange rates and according to purchasing power parity (PPP).
The New Economic Zones program (Vietnamese: Xây dựng các vùng kinh tế mới) was implemented by the communist Việt Cộng and Socialist Republic of Vietnam after the Fall of Saigon. Between 1975 and 1980, more than 1 million northerners migrated to the south and central regions formerly under the Republic of Vietnam. This program, in ...
Vietnam has argued to be freed of the non-market label because of recent economic reforms, saying retaining the moniker is bad for increasingly close two-way ties that Washington sees as a ...
Like much of Vietnam, post-war Biên Hòa suffered a period of severe economic decline between 1975 and the second half of the 1980s. However, after the government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam introduced Đổi Mới, a series of economic and political reforms in 1986, Biên Hòa experienced significant economic growth. The city and its ...
GDP per capita development in Vietnam. The economy of Vietnam is a developing mixed socialist-oriented market economy. [3] It is the 33rd-largest economy in the world by nominal gross domestic product (GDP) and the 26th-largest economy in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP). It is a lower-middle income country with a low cost of living.