In the school year 2020-2021, the whole country has 17,551 thousand pupils of general education (8,890 thousand pupils in primary school; 5,920.5 thousand pupils in lower secondary school; 2,740.5 thousand pupils in upper secondary schools)
Average CPI of 2020 increased by 3.23% compared to 2019, met the target below 4% set by the National Assembly
In 2020, gross retail sales of consumer goods and services reached 5,059.8 trillion VND, rising by 2.6% over the previous year, if excluding the price factor, the decrease was 1.2% (in 2019 increased by 9.5%).
GDP in 2020 will increase by 2.91%, although it is the lowest growth rate of the years in the period 2011-2020, but in the context of a complicated Covid-19 epidemic, negatively affecting all socio-economic fields. This is a great success for Vietnam with the highest growth rate in the world in 2020.
Infographic Socio-economic situation in December and 2020.
In 11 months of 2020, the total number of newly established enterprises had nearly 124.3 thousand enterprises, decrease of 1.9% compared to the same period in last year; however the average registered capital of a newly established enterprise rose by 21.7%.
Generally for 11 months of 2020, the IIP was estimated to increase by 3.1% over the same period last year
Generally for 11 months of 2020, the whole country had 16.5 thousand households suffering from food shortage, fell by 75.9% over the same period last year, corresponding to 66.5 thousand persons suffering from food shortage, dropped 76.1%.
As of mid-November, the country harvested 1,424.7 thousand hectares of winter paddy, accounted for 89.9% of cultivated area, equal to 98.1% in comparison with that over the same period last year
Generally for 11 months, passengers carried still decreased of 29.7% and freight carried fell by 6.2%. International visitors arrival to our country reached nearly 3.8 million, down 76.6%
