The goal is to have policies supporting childbirth in 100% of provinces and cities by 2030.
Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long signed Decision No. 291/QD-TTg dated February 13, 2026, approving the “Program to Ensure Replacement Fertility Rate Nationwide until 2030” (the Program).
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The goal is to increase the national total fertility rate by an average of 2% each year.
Striving an average increase of 2% in the total fertility rate nationwide each year.
The program's objective is to increase the birth rate to achieve and maintain replacement level fertility nationwide, meeting human resource requirements, contributing to the successful implementation of Vietnam's population strategy until 2030, and ensuring rapid and sustainable national development.
The program aims to achieve the following by 2030: Increase the national fertility rate by an average of 2% annually. Over 95% of couples, men, and women of reproductive age are provided with information on marriage and childbirth to achieve and maintain replacement fertility levels nationwide. 100% of provinces and cities implement policies to support couples and individuals in having and raising children.
Increase birth rate
To achieve the above objectives, the Program proposes specific solutions such as: Strengthening the leadership of Party committees and government at all levels; promoting propaganda and campaigns to change behavior; adjusting and improving support and incentive policies; expanding access to reproductive health, family planning and related services...
Specifically, the program emphasizes a deeper shift in the focus of population policy towards population and development, adjusting the birth rate to achieve and maintain the replacement level nationwide. It unifies understanding among leaders and guides in mobilizing, encouraging, and supporting couples and individuals to have children, raise them well, and build progressive and happy families. The program focuses on increasing the birth rate, paying particular attention to localities with birth rates below the replacement level, in order to achieve and maintain the replacement level nationwide – the most important condition for ensuring human resources, and the most fundamental prerequisite for sustainable socio-economic development and national survival.
Promote propaganda and mobilization activities in diverse, rich, lively, attractive, and persuasive forms. Enhance the effectiveness of communication through mass media, focusing on the use of multimedia, the internet, and social networks. Make rational use of cultural, artistic, and entertainment forms. Leverage the role of influential figures in the public, family, and clan, such as celebrities in politics , science, culture, art, sports, village elders, and community leaders. Pay particular attention to strengthening direct communication activities, especially home and community-based communication through collaborators, propagandists, and village health workers.
Supplementing policies to support and encourage couples to have two children.
In addition, the Program will review and propose amendments to regulations that are inconsistent with the goal of achieving and maintaining the replacement fertility rate, especially regulations on handling violations of current population policies. It will propose the issuance of regulations emphasizing the pioneering and exemplary role of each official and Party member in having and raising children well, and building progressive and happy families to achieve and maintain the replacement fertility rate.
Based on socio-economic conditions and the state budget's balancing capacity, provinces and cities shall have policies to support couples and individuals in having and raising children in order to achieve and maintain a sustainable replacement fertility rate; priority shall be given to provinces and cities with birth rates below the replacement level and ethnic minorities with very small populations.
Supplementing policies to support and encourage couples to have children, to have two children, and for women to have two children before the age of 35, based on an analysis and assessment of the impact of policies on labor, employment, housing, social welfare, education , health, etc., on low birth rates; developing and implementing appropriate intervention models.
Expanding access to reproductive health and family planning services.
Expanding access to reproductive health, family planning, and related services by: Making family planning and reproductive health care services accessible to all citizens, ensuring fairness and equality in access and use of services, without discrimination based on gender, marriage, or status, so that each individual and couple can proactively and voluntarily decide on the number of children, timing of childbirth, and spacing between births to improve population quality; developing and implementing various forms of infertility prevention in the community; and promoting technology transfer and developing a network of assisted reproductive technologies.
For remote, disadvantaged, ethnic minority, border, and island areas: Organize appropriate service provision; provide counseling, health check-ups, early detection, and prevention of risk factors leading to birth defects and diseases that affect the quality of the population...
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