This report for 2021 is a joint research product of the Ministry of Labour - Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), Committee for Ethnic Affairs (CEMA), General Statistics Office (GSO), and the United Nations Development Programme in Viet Nam (UNDP Viet Nam), co-financed by the DFAT-GREAT program and conducted by Centre for Analysis and Forecasting, Vietnam Academy for Social Science (CAF/VASS).

• Citation: MoLISA, Committee for Ethnic Affairs, General Statistics Office & UNDP (2021). Sustaining Rapid Reduction of Poverty in All Dimensions and Everywhere in Viet Nam - Viet Nam Multi-dimensional Poverty Report 2021

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) launched a National Multidimensional Poverty (MDP) measurement in 2015 to inform planning over the 2016-2020 period. The source of data for calculating multidimensional poverty statistics is the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS). The first report on multidimensional poverty was based on data from VHLSS 2021-2016.

• Citation: MoLISA (2018). Multidimensional Poverty in Viet Nam:  Reducing poverty in all its dimensions to ensure a good quality life for all.  

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in a third or more of the 10 weighted indicators. 

The National Multidimensional Poverty (MDP) measurement has five dimensions and 10 indicators: (i) Health (indicators: nutrition and child mortality, each is weighted 1/6), (ii) Education (indicators: adult education and children education, each is weighted 1/10), (iii) housing (indicators: per person housing area and housing quality, each is weighted 1/10), (iv) Living standard (indicators: water and sanitation, each is weighted 1/10) and (v) access information (indicators: usage of telecom services and assets for accessing information, each is weighted 1/10). Each dimension is equally weighted (1/5) and each indicator within a dimension is also equally weighted. Each person who fails to meet the deprivation cutoff is identified as deprived in that indicator. A person is identified (by Alkire-Foster methodology) as multi-dimensionally poor if the person’s weighted deprivation score is equal to or higher than the poverty cutoff of 33.33%

Source: Vietnam-Human-Development-Indices-and-Indicators-Viet-Nam27s-statistical-updates-Final-2018.pdf (mppn.org) 

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country.     

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for Viet Nam based on MICS year 2020-2021.   

Official institutions responsible for poverty statistics  

• Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA)
• Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs 
• General Statistics Office

Events  

• 27 September 2015 | Intervention by H.E. Mr. Dang Huy Dong, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Planning and Investment of Viet Nam at UNGA 70 Side Event 

News

• December 2019 | Multidimensional Poverty in Viet Nam: Sustainable Poverty Reduction 2016–2020 | MPPN
• 17 December 2014 | Ho Chi Minh takes lead in piloting a new multidimensional poverty measure in Vietnam

VNRs   

• 2018 | Viet Nam's Voluntary National Review on the Implementaton of the Sustainable Development Goals