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THÁI NGUYÊN UNIVERSITY COLLEDGE OF EDUCATION. Subject Vietnamese demography. By: Dr. Hồng Nguyễn Thị Faculty of Geography. Thái Nguyên, July, 2011. I. Structure of Viet Nam population. 1.1. Size of population. 1/4/2009, total number of population: 85.846.997 people. Thousand people.
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THÁI NGUYÊN UNIVERSITY COLLEDGE OF EDUCATION Subject Vietnamese demography By: Dr. Hồng Nguyễn Thị Faculty of Geography Thái Nguyên, July, 2011
I. Structure of Viet Nam population 1.1. Size of population 1/4/2009, total number of population: 85.846.997people Thousand people year Size of population, 1995 - 2009
1.1. Size of population -13rd Crowded population with 58th area in the world - High rate of Population growth - Large size of population causes these pressures: + Standard of living + Environment Resources + Economic development
Total Fertility Rate, Total Death Rate, Rate of Urbanization, HDI TFR (children / female) Years of survey Total Fertility Rate (TFR), 1999 - 2009
Over 60 0 – 14 15 - 59 1.2. Vietnamese Population structure 1.2.1. AgeYoung population, large children proportion - large dependent proportion: 46.3% Higher percentage of working-age population (66.1%).+ The potential advantage of labor resources+ pressure in career and education problems Population structure by age, 2009 (unit: %)
1.2.2. Urban and rural areas Percentage of people living in rural areas is much larger than that of urban areas Urban areas: 25.436.896 people : 29.6% Rural areas: 60.410.101 people : 70.4%
service A-F-F I&C 1.2.3. Economic components Concentrated in economic groups of agriculture – forestry – fishery(A-F-F), service. The lowest concentrated groups are industry and construction (I&C) The population structure by labor,2009 (unit:%)
1.2.4. Population distribution, population density • - Density: • + Vietnam: 259 people / km2 • + World: 46 people / km2 • + Average of Southeast Asia: 119 people / km2 • + Despite the world's most populous country, China has population density of 136 people / km2 . • Uneven distribution population • + Mountainous provinces: 41 people / km2, • + Red River Delta : over 1000 people / km2,+ Hanoi Capital City: 1,926 people / km2 • + Ho Chi Minh City: 3,399 people / km2
1.3. Ethnic structure 1.3.1. Ethnic components • - Vietnam has 54 different ethnic minority groups • They are arranged by language groups as following: • Southeast Asia • Austronesia • Sino-Tibetan
* Ethnic structure - The Kinh people (or Viets) account for nearly (85,7%) of Vietnam's total population: 73,594 million. the others: 12,253 million (14,3%). - Major ethnic minority groups include the Tay, Thai, Muong, H'Mong, Dao and Khmer. Tay (1.629. Thai (1.550.423) Muong (1.268.963) Khmer (1.260.640) H’Mong (1.068.189) Hoa (823.071) Nung (968.800) Dao (751.067) Giarai (411.275) Ede (331.194) Brau, Odu and R’Mam groups have approximately hundreds people.
- Vietnamese ethnicities are distributed in the whole country. Although they are scattered and interleaved, most of minority groups live in mountainous and remote areas in the North, Central Highlands and MeKong Delta. - Unique and impressive customs and cultures are the remarkable features of ethnic groups
1.3.2. A common feature of the Vietnamese community - Of the 54 ethnic groups, some are born and developed from the beginning of Vietnam, some are migrators. - The ethnic minorities reside mainly in the mountains, where have important positions in economy, politic, security, defence and ecological environments. - The levels of social – economic developments are unequal.- Vietnamese culture is the culture of unity in diversity, every ethnicity has its own values cultural nuances.
2. Belief and Religion 2.1. Population structure arranged by Religion • There are quite many different religions in Vietnam • Population rate arranged by religion in 2009: • Mahayana Buddhism: 83% (Taoism, Confucianism, including ancestor worship) • - Theravada Buddhism :2% • - Christian: 8% • - Roman Catholic: 7% (neally 6 million people) • - Protestant: 1% (more than 800 thousand people) • - Muslim: 0,08% (nearly 70 thousand people) • - Cao Đaiism: 3% (more than 2.5 million people) • - HoaHaoism: 1.6% (nearly 1.3 million followers)
2.2. Features of belief and religion in Vietnam • Everyone has freedom of religion and belief • Though 80% of Vietnamese people have no religion, they worship their ancestors. • Traditional food beliefs, religious cult of nature and people. (come from the need of growing and developing of creatures)
* Religious origins in Vietnam: - Oriental Religions include: Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism- Western Religions include: Catholic, Protestant,- Middle East Religion include: Islam, Balamon (India) - Vietnamese Religions: Cao Dai, Hoa Hao, Buddhism. Notre-Dame Cathedral in HCMC
Cathedral in Hanoi Phat Diem church – Ninh Binh province
Moslem Xuan loc mosque (Đong Nai-province)
Cao Đai mosque (Tay Ninh province)
Hung temple (Vinh Phuc province) Ancestor’s Death aniversary of Vietnamese people (Hung Temple festival on march 10th lunal)
In the cult of human belief, Ancestor worship almost becomes the most common religion of Vietnamese people AncestorTemple
Pagoda Pagoda
3. Culture and Life style of Vietnamese 3.1.Comunity organizations The basic unit of Vietnamese people group is village. A village is a relatively closed organization. Communal house in a village is the place of village’s tutelary god worship, meetings and holding esential festivals Communal house in village
Viet Nam villages - Country sides Làng quê Việt Nam
Country side in mountainous areas House on stilts of ethnic minority groups
Hoi An Old town Viet NamUrban
3.2.Cultural Festivals in Viet Nam Buffalo Fighting Festival Cham dance
3.3. Vietnamese cuisine Fermented pork roll Ha Noi Pho
Vietnam cuisine is mainly based on rice, meat, soya sauce and fish sauce and many other herbs. Its characteristic flavor is sour, salty, sweet, spicy, and so on Spring roll Dried bamboo shoots stew with pork
Green rice flake cake Yellow - coloured wedding pastry
3.4. Vietnamese costumes - Diversified costumes. • Female costumes indicate the discreet charm and gracefulness • Every ethnic group has specific costumes themselves
Conclusion • With large population, Vietnam has benefit of young population with abundant human resources. • Most people live in rural areas and work on agriculture, forestry and fisheries fields • There are many ethnic groups with ancient, quite unique, diversified and plentiful cultures in VietNam • Although there are many different religions, most people are not religious ones. • Asian lifestyle is the feature of Vietnamese with strong cultural traditions and national identity