On the afternoon of January 8, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, answering reporters' questions about the information that the Statistics Office has just announced socio-economic data for 2025 of Vietnam, according to which Vietnam's GDP in 2025 increased by 8.02% compared to 2024; what is international public opinion's assessment of Vietnam's economic growth in 2025 and forecasts for 2026, Spokesperson Pham Thu Hang clearly stated that Vietnam's socio-economic development results in 2025 reached and exceeded all 15/15 key indicators. Macroeconomic stability is basically stable, inflation is well controlled, high growth, and major balances of the economy are ensured.
The GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2025 reached 8.46%, the whole year reached 8.02%; the economic scale reached about 514 billion USD, ranking 32nd in the world; average income per capita equivalent to 5,026 USD, an increase of 326 USD compared to 2024 and belonging to the group of high-middle income countries.
Total import and export turnover is estimated at over 930 billion USD, an increase of 18.2% compared to the same period, belonging to the group of 20 leading countries in the world. FDI capital realized reached 27.62 billion USD, an increase of 9%, the highest level of implementation from 2021 to date.
These important achievements have been recognized and highly appreciated by the international community. Many economic researchers, foreign investors, and international friends all consider Vietnam as one of the bright spots in the gloomy economic context of the world in recent times.
The International Monetary Organization ranks Vietnam in the top 10 fastest growing countries in the world. International public opinion highly appreciates traditional drivers such as trade, investment, tourism continuing to grow remarkably, new drivers such as science and technology, digital transformation, new forms and development spaces being established, playing a foundational role for the development roadmap in the coming period.
With those achievements and opportunities, in the coming time, Vietnam will continue to prioritize a number of key areas: Focusing on perfecting institutions and laws, ensuring transparency, synchronization, and fairness; continuing to focus on perfecting regulations on the state administrative apparatus; prioritizing promoting growth accompanied by maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation and ensuring major balances; establishing a new growth model taking science and technology, innovation and digital transformation as the main driving force; ensuring the progress of strategic infrastructure projects, developing high-quality human resources; improving people's lives, ensuring social security.
