Ho Chi Minh City is pressing ahead with comprehensive and resolute measures to ensure its 2025 economic growth target of 8.5% or higher, with GDP expansion in the second half of the year expected to reach 10.3%.

Vietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 6.93% in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the same period last year, the highest Q1 rate since 2020, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported at a press conference in Hanoi on April 6.

VOV.VN - The Vietnamese economy is set to grow by between 6% and 6.5% over the next decade, according to experts from DBS Bank, adding that if the country maintains its current trajectory then it will surpass Singapore by 2030.