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Viet Nam

East Asia & Pacific · Lower middle income

Two forces shape how many students a country sends abroad: the supply of domestic education (quality and capacity at home) and the demand drivers (who wants to leave, and who can afford to). The headline index for each axis is the mean percentile — versus every country that year — of a fixed core basket; other indicators are shown as context.

Supply — domestic education

Index = Education Index + tertiary enrolment. Weak supply itself drives students abroad.

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index · 2022
  • Education Index2022
    0.64438
    38th pctile

    UNDP education sub-index (schooling years).

  • Tertiary Enrolment Ratio2022
    44.8%38
    38th pctile

    Tertiary gross enrolment ratio — domestic capacity.

  • PISA — Sciencecontext2018
    54396
    96th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — science. · region avg 489

  • PISA — Readingcontext2018
    50583
    83th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — reading. · region avg 472

  • PISA — Mathematicscontext2018
    49671
    71th pctile

    OECD PISA mean score — mathematics. · region avg 487

Demand — drivers to study abroad

Index = GDP per capita + outbound mobility + population (market scale).

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index · 2022
  • Population (market scale)2022
    99.7M93
    93th pctile

    Total population — scale of the student market.

  • Outbound Mobility Ratio2022
    4.6%45
    45th pctile

    Tertiary students studying abroad, as a share of enrolment.

  • GDP per Capita (PPP)2022
    $13,90540
    40th pctile

    GDP per capita, PPP — ability to pay.

The headline index uses the core basket only, so it stays comparable across countries and matches the trend chart and world map below. PISA (≈80 countries, triennial) is shown as context, not in the index.

Supply & demand over time

20002022

Each axis indexed 0–100 by its position relative to the world that year, so a rising line means Viet Nam is climbing the global ranks. A widening gap between demand (above) and supply (below) signals growing pressure to study abroad.

Supply indexDemand index02550751002000200520102015202020223860

Index basket (held constant for comparability): supply = Education Index + tertiary enrolment ratio; demand = GDP per capita (PPP) + outbound mobility ratio + population.

Coverage

8/8 indicators present. Full coverage across all eight indicators.

Revealed Demand — Australia

Viet Nam students in Australia

The supply/demand model above is global. Here is the realised outcome in one destination — actual enrolments of Vietnam students in Australia, the same series shown in International Education, filtered to this country.

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Enrolments by year — year-to-date path, last six years

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Current year in vermillion; prior years in grey. Source: Australian Department of Education.

By Sector

 

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Current year Previous year · % = year-on-year change

By State & Territory

 

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Current year Previous year · % = year-on-year change