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Social conditions
- Population & Labor Force
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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Average Population (1000 người)
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5.285
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5.449
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5.630
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6.117
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6.240
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Male
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2.546
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2.625
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2.713
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2.920
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2.996
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Female
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2.739
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2.824
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2.917
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3.142
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3.243
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Urban
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4.410
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4.542
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4.661
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5.170
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5.315
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Rural
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875
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907
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969
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893
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925
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Natural population growth rate (%)
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1,30
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1,27
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1,15
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1,20
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1,15
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Mechanical population growth rate (%)
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0,77
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0,90
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1,2
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2,1
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2,0
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Population at working ages (1000)
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2.267
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2.336
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2.503
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2.586
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2.676
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Unemployment rate of Urban area(%)
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6,04
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6,54
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6,13
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6,0
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Number of hospitals
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38
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38
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38
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55
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56
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local clinic
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43
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43
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43
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29
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29
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- Infrastructure / Traffic
Hochiminh City is 1,730km far from Hanoi by land and locates at the crossroads of international maritime routes, a center of Southeast Asia. Hochiminh City center is 50km away from the East Sea as the crow flies.. It is a transport hub of the southern regions and a gateway to the world.
Hochiminh City owns a transportation system which more and more develops on roadways, river ways, railways as well as airways. Therefore, the volume of local commodity is increasingly transported day by day in Hochiminh City.
With the biggest airports and water ports system of Vietnam, Sai Gon port has capacity of 10 million tons per year. Tan Son Nhat International Airport with tens of airport – lines is away 7km from Hochiminh City Center. Tan Son Nhat airport undertakes from 60 to 70% of international transportation of passengers and commodities every year.
Hochiminh City is located at International center owning to roadways to Cambodia, Sai Gon Port and the associate system of inter - Asia railways – roadways across the Hochiminh City, which facilitates HCMC in improving its competence as well as diversifying its International forwarding vehicles in the near future.
The city also has a well - developing storage system meeting inter-area forwarding demands.
At present, the city is forming important traffic networks such as across-Asian lines, Eastern – Western boulevard, accompanying with extending essential lines in Hochiminh City area…which contributes in improving the city’s face, meets economic development demands in the new age.
Map of Transportation (Map)
- Economy
Hochiminh City, an economic motive force of the nation, is a region leading on investment capital from either FDI or domestic direct investment and others. The city also is a place of receiving about 60% of total overseas national currency exchange of Vietnam every year. In 2007, GDP has grown 12.6%, GDP per capita has got USD 2100 and estimated to attain USD 3000 in 2010. The rate of poor household having less than 6 million VND income occupies 1.9% every year.
+ GDP ( Chart)
+ FDI (Chart)
+ Import and Export (Chart)