Vietnam
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
- Region
- Asia · South-Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Hanoi
- Population
- 101,598,527 (2025)
- Government
- communist party-led state
- Currency
- Vietnamese đồng (VND)
- Official languages
- Vietnamese
- Spoken languages
- Vietnamese (official); English (often as a second language); some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain-area languages (including Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 331,212 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, ASEAN, IMF, WCO, WTO (2024)
- Borders
- Cambodia , China , Laos
Political stability
66 / 100
Economic stability
54 / 100
Population stability
80 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- broadcasting equipment, garments, integrated circuits, machine parts, footwear (2023)
- Key imports
- integrated circuits, broadcasting equipment, fabric, plastics, telephones (2023)
- Natural resources
- antimony, phosphates, coal, manganese, rare earth elements, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, timber, hydropower, arable land
- Critical minerals
- Large rare-earth reserves, early-stage production.
- Primary route
- Transpacific services to North America
- Secondary route
- Intra-Asia feeder network via Singapore and Hong Kong hubs
The xin.bz view
- Vietnam exported roughly 5.53M t of rice in January–July 2026 and is weighing minimum export and paddy price supports — the next phase of the rice market runs on policy as much as quantity.
- It is also the region’s conversion economy in the making: electronics, machinery, and AI-infrastructure exports surged in 2026 while imported fuel and industrial inputs grew costlier, tying the food system directly to the manufacturing system.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño's Caribbean Chain Reaction: How Water Stress Could Become a Food, Freight and Stability Shock
El Niño connects Caribbean water stress, falling U.S. rice stocks, a weak Indian monsoon, and Panama Canal limits into one food, freight, and stability risk through mid-2027.
El Niño Is Reordering South America's Export Map
El Niño makes South America the world's replacement supplier — record Brazilian crops, Argentine rainfall gains, Peru's fishmeal shock, and the logistics that decide who can move it.
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Fish Meal Is the High-Protein Feed Commodity Whose Global Supply Can Turn on One Peruvian Fishery
Fish meal deep dive — Peru's anchovy fishery supplies ~20% of a 5.1M t market, the 2026 season stopped at 25% of quota under a 120-day national emergency, China takes 78% of exports, and prices hit $2,105/mt.
Future Insight ·
The Holiday Inventory Has Already Moved
Future Insights — the 2026 holiday season arrived through warehouses months before shoppers: purchase orders placed by May, inventory handed downstream in August, $1 trillion in U.S. sales on flat units, and factory labor tracing the new production map from India to Vietnam.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.