Data · Prices, labour & income
Labor force, total: Vietnam, 1990–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 57.04 million people
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.TLF.TOTL.IN
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Labor force comprises people ages 15 and older who supply labor for the production of goods and services during a specified period. It includes people who are currently employed and people who are unemployed but seeking work as well as first-time job-seekers. Not everyone who works is included, however. Unpaid workers, family workers, and students are often omitted, and some countries do not count members of the armed forces. Labor force size tends to vary during the year as seasonal workers enter and leave.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2025 (36 years of data). It moved from 31.50 to 57.04 million people, a change of 81.1%. The highest value was 57.04 in 2025 and the lowest 31.50 in 1990. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (million people) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 57.04 |
| 2024 | 56.70 |
| 2023 | 56.38 |
| 2022 | 56.48 |
| 2021 | 55.30 |
| 2020 | 55.15 |
| 2019 | 56.18 |
| 2018 | 56.24 |
| 2017 | 55.53 |
| 2016 | 54.89 |
| 2015 | 54.63 |
| 2014 | 53.89 |
| 2013 | 53.21 |
| 2012 | 51.92 |
| 2011 | 51.20 |
| 2010 | 50.30 |
| 2009 | 49.27 |
| 2008 | 47.89 |
| 2007 | 46.30 |
| 2006 | 44.78 |
| 2005 | 43.51 |
| 2004 | 42.51 |
| 2003 | 41.75 |
| 2002 | 41.10 |
| 2001 | 40.51 |
| 2000 | 38.79 |
| 1999 | 38.38 |
| 1998 | 37.71 |
| 1997 | 37.02 |
| 1996 | 36.47 |
| 1995 | 35.61 |
| 1994 | 34.77 |
| 1993 | 33.94 |
| 1992 | 33.12 |
| 1991 | 32.32 |
| 1990 | 31.50 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 57.04 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 40.87 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 147.10 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 18.72 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 52.20 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 3.76 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 10.37 |
| Laos | 2025 | 3.65 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 22.94 |
| China | 2025 | 768.07 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Labor force, total, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.TOTL.IN?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name sl_tlf_totl_in, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.