Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long has just signed Decision No. 291/QD-TTg dated February 13, 2026 approving the "National Replacement Birth Ratio Ensuring Program to 2030" (the program).
The program strives to increase the total fertility rate by an average of 2% nationwide by 2030. Over 95% of couples, men and women of reproductive age are provided with information about marriage and childbirth to reach and maintain the replacement fertility rate nationwide. 100% of provinces and cities implement policies to support couples and individuals to have children and raise children.
To achieve the above goals, the program proposes specific solutions such as: Strengthening the leadership of Party committees and authorities at all levels; promoting propaganda and mobilization to change behavior; adjusting and perfecting support and encouragement policies; expanding access to reproductive health services, family planning and related services...
The program further thoroughly grasps the shift of population policy focus to population and development, adjusting the birth rate to reach and maintaining the replacement birth rate nationwide.
Unify awareness in leadership and direction of mobilizing, encouraging, and supporting couples and individuals to have children, raise children well, and build progressive and happy families.
Focus on leading and directing to increase the birth rate, focusing on localities with birth rates below replacement birth rates to achieve and maintain the national replacement birth rate, the most important condition to ensure human resources, which is the most basic prerequisite for sustainable socio-economic development, and the nation's longevity.
The program shall review and propose amendments to regulations that are not consistent with the goal of achieving and firmly maintaining the replacement fertility rate, especially regulations on handling violations of current population policy.
Propose promulgating regulations on promoting the pioneering and exemplary nature of each cadre and party member in giving birth, raising children well, building progressive and happy families to achieve and maintain the replacement fertility rate.
Based on socio-economic conditions and the ability to balance the state budget, provinces and cities have policies to support couples and individuals to have children and raise children in order to achieve and maintain sustainable replacement fertility rates; priority is given to provinces and cities with birth rates below replacement fertility rates, and very small ethnic minorities.
Supplementing policies to support and encourage couples to have children, have enough 2 children, and women to have enough 2 children before the age of 35 based on analyzing and evaluating the impact of policies on labor, employment, housing, social welfare, education, health... on having fewer children; building and implementing appropriate intervention models.
Expand access to reproductive health services, family planning and related services by: Universalizing family planning services and reproductive health care to all people, ensuring fairness and equality in access and use of services, regardless of gender, married or unmarried, so that each individual and couple can proactively and voluntarily decide on the number of children, delivery time and spacing between births to improve population quality.
