Vietnam’s Population Exceeds 64 Million
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From Associated Press
BANGKOK, Thailand — Vietnam announced that its population has grown to 64.4 million, and it called on all families to have no more than two children.
The official Vietnam News Agency said the population had grown by 11.7 million since the last census in 1979, representing a high annual growth rate of 2.13%.
An editorial in the Communist Party’s newspaper, Nhan Dan, urged all people to observe the national target of one or two children per family, the agency said.
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