Hanoi, Jun. 4, (dpa/GNA) — Vietnam has scrapped its two-child limit as it seeks to increase fertility rates, state media said on Wednesday.

According to the Vietnam News Agency, individual couples will now be able to make their own decisions about the number of children they decide to have.

Though birth rates have been falling for more than a decade, they have dropped significantly over the last four years.

The nation’s fertility rate fell to a worrying 1.91 children per woman last year, which is below the replacement level required to maintain a stable population, according to the Health Ministry.

The birth rate in 2021 was 2.11 per woman.

The country’s population boomed in the years following the Vietnam War, rising from around 46 million in 1975 to more than 100 million in 2025.

The policy was first introduced in 1963, when North Vietnam began advocating a two-child norm due to the sharp increase in the largely poor and rural population.

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