Global Gender Gap Report 202541the early 2020s. Notably, the economy has seen improvement in its labour-force participation parity for the first time since the COVID-19 downturn, rebounding to 88.6% this year. However, this still falls short of the pre-COVID level of around 92.0%. In the Educational Attainment subindex, Viet Nam has closed 97.2% of its gender gap this year and continues its efforts to narrow gender disparities in lower levels of education. Available data shows that from 2007 to 2025, the literacy gap has narrowed by 5.4 percentage points, and the gender gap in primary school enrolment has decreased by 2.8 percentage points, with improvements seen for both men and women. In Health and Survival, while women continue to outlive men in terms of healthy life expectancy, sex imbalances at birth have worsened over time. The female-to-male ratio at birth declined from 0.935 in 2007 to 0.900 in 2025, pushing Viet Nam’s score in this subindex to the second lowest in the region. In Political Empowerment, there has been marginal progress, with a 0.5 percentage-point increase in women’s representation in parliament compared to last year. Viet Nam’s overall political parity score remains unchanged relative to its regional peers.

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