The Vietnamese National Assembly has approved amendments to the Population Ordinance, removing previous limits on the number of children per family, Xinhua reported.
Under the new law, couples are now free to decide the number of children they have, as well as the timing and spacing of births.
The Ministry of Health reported a record-low fertility rate of 1.91 children per woman in 2024—below the replacement level of 2.1 which prompted the move in reaction to a persistent drop in birth rates, according to Xinhua.
