Viet Nam makes significant improvement in World Happiness Report 2025
VGP - Viet Nam is ranked 46th on the World Happiness Report 2025, a significant improvement from the 54th and 65th positions in 2024, and in 2023, respectively.
The report released by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network on International Day of Happiness (March 20), showed that in Southeast Asia, Viet Nam is only second to Singapore.
Viet Nam is among 19 countries with an increasing happiness index, alongside the Philippines, China, and Mongolia in Asia, marking Viet Nam's highest ranking since the report was first published in 2012.
The World Happiness Report ranks countries using data from the Gallup World Poll, which asks respondents to evaluate their life as a whole on a scale of 0 to 10-with the best possible life as a 10 and the worst as a 0.
They gather about 1,000 responses from each country every year, which are then weighted to give population-representative national averages. To determine each country's annual happiness ranking, researchers then use an average of three years' worth of data; so the 2025 report uses survey data from 2022-2024.
As of April 1, 2024, Viet Nam's population reached 101,112,656 people, ranking third in the Southeast Asia and 16th in the world, the General Statistics Office reported.
Of the figure, 50,346,030 were male, making up 49.8 percent; and 50,766,626 were female, accounting for 50.2 percent.
The country is experiencing a golden population structure, with the share of the population aged between 15 and 64 years making up 67.4 percent.
Viet Nam's total fertility rate (TFR) in 2024 was around 1.91 children per woman.
The average life expectancy of Vietnamese people was 74.7 years old in 2024, an increase of 1.1 years compared to 2019./.
