KEY FACTS

1. Vietnam is one of the 10 countries with the highest emigration rates in Asia-Pacific, about 100,000 people each year. 

2. According to ‘2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate’ publicized in July 2017 by NAR (American National Association of Realtors), Buyers from Vietnam invested around USD 3bn buying houses in the U.S for the period from April 2016 – Mar 2017. Unofficial reports have given a much higher number that the Vietnamese actually spent in US and the total amount that the Vietnamese Buyers invest to buy properties in US, Australia, Europe and other countries combined could be exceeding US$ 10bn each year with the annual growth rate of higher than 8%.

3. ​According to a report of Ministry of Education & Training of Vietnam, there are over 130,000 Vietnamese students studying overseas in 2016 and around 140,000 in 2017. Majority goes to US, EU, Japan, Singapore and other high-developed countries. In 2017, Vietnamese people were spending over USD 4bn for overseas education.

4. ​According to Vietnam Tourism Association, in 2016, there’re approximately 6.5m Vietnamese Tourists travelling overseas spending nearly US$ 7bn – an 15% increase compared to 2015.

5. ​According to Ministry of Health of Vietnam, Vietnamese spends averagely around US$ 2bn / year for overseas health-care with main destinations are Singapore, EU, Japan, US, Korea, Thailand.

6. ​According to IOM (International Organization of Migration) and UN (United Nations), from 1990-2015, there are 2.558.678 Vietnamese People migrating to other countries, mostly to high-developed countries, nearly 100,000 people / year.

7. ​According to The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, in 2017, there are nearly 500,000 Vietnamese people working overseas. And the Ministry projects that the number will reach 1,000,000 by 2020.