20-06-2014

In 2013, the quantity if foreigners’ visits reached 7.5 millions. Among those, 61.3%  came on the purpose of tourism. In the first 5 months of 2014, the visit number was over 3.7 millions, increasing by 26.1% in comparision with the same period last year.  In terms of origin, three countries paid the most number of visits in Vietnam were from Asia. China ranked first with 25% visits in 2013. Moreover, the number of visits from China in the first 5 months of 2014 is nearly 1 million (grows by 43.4% in comparison with the same period last year). In general, the numbers of visits from most countries increase from 4/2014 to 5/2014. This is a good sign for hospitality and tourism industry.
 
Source: General Statistic Office

13-08-2014

 From 2002 to 2012, Vietnam gained sport medals each year of all types (gold, silver and bronze) and three scales (South East Asia, Asia and the world). In general, although there were some decreases in 2006 and 2008, the number of medals increased throughout the years. The majority of sport medals that Vietnam achieved came from South East Asia competitions. In 2012, Vietnam achieved 322 gold medals, 277 silver ones and 237 bronze ones. Among the number of gold medals, more than half of them were from South East Asia competitions; 36% came from Asia competitions; and the rest came from international sport competitions (28 medals).
 
Source: General statistics office

13-06-2014

According to data from General Statistics Office, from 2005 to 2012, the whole country’s aquacultural land rose from 952.6 thousand ha to1038.9 thousand ha (increase 9.06%). Mekong River delta stands the first place with 727.2 thousand ha, accounts for 70% of the whole country. Ca Mau province, Kien Giang province and Bac Lieu province are 3 top largest aquacultural land of Vietnam.
 
Source: General Statistics Office

13-06-2014

From 2008 to 2012, it can be seen that there was a surge in mobile phone. Number of 2G mobile phone subscribers in 2012 was nearly 116 million people, about 1.5 times as many as that in 2009. Similarly, 3G mobile phone rose from 7 million subscribers to more than 15 million subscribers, 2.2 times although it was not until 2009 that 3G mobile phone came to exist. In contrast with mobile phone, fewer and fewer subscribe fixed-line telephone day by day. 2009 was the peak year of fixed-line telephone when there were nearly 17.5 million subscribers. However, it then experienced such drastic decrease to 9.5 million subscribers in 2012.

28-01-2013

Import value of FDI companies from January 1, 2012 to December 15, 2012 was 57,092 million USD, which increased 22.9% in comparison with the same period of the year 2011 and accounted 52.6% for the gross value of the whole country. As for major groups of goods, the Machines, equipments, instruments & accessories group took up the highest of total import value (15,315 million USD), and the Chemical products group took up the lowest value (2,348 million USD). However, in comparison with the same period of the year 2011, as for value, the Computer, electronic products & components group increased the highest (4,962 million USD), and as for growth, the Telephones and components group increased the highest (92.9%)
 
Source: Vietnam Customs
Data consolidated by B&Company Vietnam

05-06-2014

In the period 2009-2012, the number of supermarkets in Vietnam increased 1.5 times, located most in South East and Red River Deltawhere there is high population density rate. Central Land and Mekong River Delta had the fewest number of supermarkets. In 2012, Vietnam had 659 supermarkets. Ho Chi Minh city is the province that had the most supermarkets with 162 ones, accounting for 83% of South East area. Ranking second was Hanoi with 100 supermarkets (about 60% the area’s number of supermarkets).
 
Source: General Statistic Office

05-06-2014

From 2005 to 2012, gross output of industry of Vietnam increased continously. The whole country grew with the CAGR of 24.67% and reached 4,627,733.1 billion VND in 2012. The fastest industrial development place was Quang Ngai with around 80% CAGR. Some other provinces grew at high speed such as Yen Bai and Bac Ninh (over 45% each year). Ho Chi Minh contributed the most to Vietnam’s industrial output with 17.3% but had a slower development, just at 18.81% CAGR.
 
Source: General Statistic Office

22-08-2014

From 2008 to 2012, the number of commercial centers increased but stagnated in 2012 because of downturn economy. Commercial centers mainly open in the higher developing level such as Red river delta and South east. Ho CHi Minh city had the most with 26 commercial centers, accounting for 22.6% of those in the whole country.
 
Source: General statistics office

13-06-2014

     In general, internet in Vietnam has a tendency to grow in almost all aspects from 2011 to 2012. Internet subscribers via different channels  like xDSL, CATV, leased line, FTTx all increased considerably in which the most remarkable is internet subscriber via leasedline: from 11,614 subscribers to 108,516 (934%). Despite change in internet subscribers, number of households with Internet access experienced slight change, its growth is 8.3% in 2012 (from 2,996,221 to 3,245,190 households from 2011 to 2012).  There was only one fall in number of mobile broadband Internet subscribers via 3G network, in 2012, in decreased 4% compared with 2011.
 
Source: General Statistics Office