Data · Growth & economic structure
GDP per person employed (constant 2021 PPP $): Vietnam, 1991–2025
- Latest (2025)
- 27,957 USD PPP per worker
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
GDP per person employed is gross domestic product (GDP) divided by total employment in the economy. Purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP is GDP converted to 2021 constant international dollars using PPP rates. An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP that a U.S. dollar has in the United States.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1991 to 2025 (35 years of data). It moved from 5,416 to 27,957 USD PPP per worker, a change of 416.2%. The highest value was 27,957 in 2025 and the lowest 5,416 in 1991. 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 (USD PPP per worker) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 27,957 |
| 2024 | 26,057 |
| 2023 | 24,493 |
| 2022 | 23,275 |
| 2021 | 22,082 |
| 2020 | 21,530 |
| 2019 | 20,458 |
| 2018 | 18,936 |
| 2017 | 17,973 |
| 2016 | 17,000 |
| 2015 | 16,010 |
| 2014 | 15,080 |
| 2013 | 14,359 |
| 2012 | 13,901 |
| 2011 | 13,357 |
| 2010 | 12,790 |
| 2009 | 12,349 |
| 2008 | 12,071 |
| 2007 | 11,835 |
| 2006 | 11,423 |
| 2005 | 10,993 |
| 2004 | 10,470 |
| 2003 | 9,925 |
| 2002 | 9,417 |
| 2001 | 9,046 |
| 2000 | 8,851 |
| 1999 | 8,382 |
| 1998 | 8,139 |
| 1997 | 7,887 |
| 1996 | 7,331 |
| 1995 | 6,868 |
| 1994 | 6,423 |
| 1993 | 6,050 |
| 1992 | 5,741 |
| 1991 | 5,416 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2025 | 27,957 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 39,617 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 30,292 |
| Malaysia | 2025 | 70,821 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 24,593 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 233,454 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 12,600 |
| Laos | 2025 | 19,366 |
| Myanmar | 2025 | 12,669 |
| China | 2025 | 48,126 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). GDP per person employed (constant 2021 PPP $), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.GDP.PCAP.EM.KD?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_gdp_pcap_em_kd, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.