The National Assembly has passed the Population Law, this law consists of 8 chapters, 30 articles, effective from July 1, 2026.
This Law stipulates communication, mobilization, and education on population; maintaining replacement birth rates, reducing gender imbalance at birth; adapting to population aging; improving population quality and conditions to ensure the implementation of population work.
The Law also introduces many state policies on population. In which, population is identified as the top important factor of the cause of building, developing and protecting the Fatherland.
The implementation of population and development policies through measures to maintain alternative birth rates, minimize gender imbalances at birth, and improve population quality in relation to socio-economic, defense, and security factors associated with building a rich, prosperous, civilized, and happy country.
Implementing population and development policy is the responsibility of the entire political system, of each individual, family, business, organization and the whole society. The State plays a leading role and mobilizes society to implement population policy.
In addition, there are policies to improve the quality of the population in terms of physical, intellectual and spiritual aspects; protect and develop the population for ethnic minorities with very few people.
Based on socio-economic conditions in each period, the State has appropriate policies to support couples and individuals to have children and raise children through labor, employment, wages, social insurance, health insurance, allowances, education, health care, housing and other policies to increase the birth rate and achieve sustainable replacement birth rates; prioritizing provinces and cities with birth rates below replacement birth rates.
The Law also stipulates that it is necessary to have policies to adapt to population aging; develop a network of geriatric and specialized geriatric hospitals in general hospitals; develop activities to care for the elderly; ensure that the elderly have convenient access to health services and a social environment suitable to socio-economic conditions.
At the same time, encourage preparation for old age when young; encourage and offer incentives to businesses and organizations to participate in production and provision of goods and services for the elderly in accordance with the law.
Supporting the elderly in terms of labor, employment, social security, participation in entrepreneurship, economic development, participation in digital transformation; developing long-term care insurance and other forms of health insurance.
Prioritize and support the implementation of population work in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, especially difficult commune-level administrative units in coastal, coastal and island areas.
Have policies to promote research, application, and promote the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation in the field of population.
