Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Viet Nam

4.2% of people in Viet Nam lived below the national poverty line in 2022. The value for 2022 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1992.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 1992 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Viet Nam, 2022 4.2% % of population
Change from 2021 −0.2percentage points 2021: 4.4%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Viet Nam over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2002 to 2022
Period Viet Nam
2022 4.2%
2021 4.4%
2020 4.8%
2019 5.7%
2018 6.8%
2017 7.9%
2016 9.2%
2014 13.5%
2012 17.2%
2010 20.7%
2008 14.5%
2006 16.0%
2004 19.5%
2002 28.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.2 percentage points from 4.4% in 2021.
  • Since 2008, when it was 14.5%, the figure has changed by −10.3 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1992 to 2022 for Viet Nam
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources