Workforce growing in number

According to the General Statistics Office, Vietnam’s workforce totaled 51.2 million people in the first quarter of 2022, an increase of 200,000 over the same period last year, while unemployment stood at around 1.1 million, down nearly 490,000 people compared to the previous quarter. In terms of workforce quality, the number of trained workers in the first quarter represented 26.1 per cent of the total; 0.1 percentage points higher than in the same period last year.