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More than 80% of Vietnam's population uses smartphones

The 2025 household living standards survey showed that 87.3% of the population used mobile phones, up 2.5 percentage points from 84.8% in 2024. Of those, 80.3% used smartphones, while the proportion of people using feature phones fell to 8.5%.

Vietnam’s industrial production records strongest five-month growth in four years

Vietnam’s industrial production maintained strong momentum in the first five months of 2026, with the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) rising 9.1% year-on-year, the highest growth rate for the period in the past four years, according to the Ministry of Finance’s National Statistics Office (NSO).

New businesses, market re-entries up 32.8% in first four months

In April alone, nearly 20,400 enterprises were newly established. The most notable feature was not the number of new firms but the quality of capital inflows. Although the number of newly established enterprises fell 7.1% from March, registered capital increased 9.7% to nearly 246.8 trillion VND (9.36 billion USD).