Of the total jobs, the industry and construction sectors will account for 23-24 percent and the trade and services sectors, 26-27 percent. The agriculture sector will represent only 50 percent of all jobs by 2010.

Over the past five years, Vietnam has created about 1.5 million new jobs for labourers a year and reduced unemployment rate in urban areas to 5.3 percent.

The country has sent some 580,000 labourers to work overseas each year.