The proportion of pensioners is low.
Opportunities in new jobs?
Before that, according to Economist, in 2018, people over 60 years old in Vietnam accounted for 12% of the population. This number is expected to increase to 21% by 2040. This is one of the fastest increases in the world.
There are many reasons, but part of it is because people’s life expectancy increased from 60 years old in the 1970s to about 73 years old today. The birth rate from 7 to less than 2 children/woman as currently.
Population aging is a phenomenon occurring in many countries. However, the difference is that it happened when Vietnam was still poor.
For Korea and Japan, when the proportion of the working-age population increased to the highest level, GDP per capita reached about 32,000 USD. As for China, this number is more than 9,500 USD. Meanwhile in Vietnam, when the proportion of people of working age peaked in 2014, GDP per capita was just over 2,000 USD.
Currently, the Government has support for the elderly, but only applies to people aged 80 and over and is considering lowering the age for social pension benefits to 75 years old for people who have neither pension nor insurance benefits. social danger. The subsidy level is also proposed to be increased to 500,000 VND per month from the state budget instead of the current 360,000 VND and a free health insurance card will be issued.
Vietnam is the country with the highest number of high-speed Internet users, mobile phone users… in the world. Illustration photo: Nam Khanh
In rural areas, the elderly do not have pensions more often and they often have to do manual and heavy work until they are no longer healthy enough.
It can be seen that, with the current trend, in the next 1-2 decades, many elderly people of the 7x and 8x generations will have to continue working to have enough money to cover their lives. Many people will have to do manual and heavy jobs such as waiters, maids…
However, in the age of technology 4.0 and the digital economy, there may be lighter jobs for the elderly. It could be online sales jobs, value-added jobs on social networking platforms…
This is also a trend that many countries are interested in. A few years ago, Thailand established the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, replacing the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology, to plan, develop and implement activities related to the digital economy. .
Vietnam is the country with the highest number of high-speed Internet users, mobile phone users… in the world. In recent years, rural people have also learned to apply science and technology to agricultural production and online sales across the country and the world.
