Vietnamese socio-economy in the 9 months of 2015 took place in the context of strong fluctuations in the global market: The international commodity market, especially crude oil, dropped continuously and decreased sharply in the past months, mainly due to abundant supply, which positively impacting the growth of oil importing countries but negatively affecting the growth of oil-exporting countries owing to reduced export revenue.

Vietnamese socio-economy in the first 6 months of 2015 took place in the context that the world economy was forecasted to continuously recover but not sustainable with different growth rate among sectors, partly due to different impacts of reduced prices of oil and other goods on each sector. The US economy - the largest economy continued to strongly grow thanks to robust domestic market demand, especially consumer demand. Most emerging economies benefited from low oil prices, rise of global liquidity and the acceleration of the US and European economies.