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Total dental spend (US$): Vietnam, 2019
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Vietnam spent about US$56.96 million on dental care in 2019, according to WHO Global Health Observatory OData API. Basis: estimate.
Comparability C Confidence low
Cite this
World Health Organization. (2026). Total dental spend (US$): Vietnam, as of 2019-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/vn/dental-spend-total-usd/2019/
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Record
- Value
- US$56.96 million
- Exact stored value
- 56,960,810 USD
- Unit conversion
- Stored value = quoted number × 1000000 (million USD to USD). Declared by the data desk.
- Unit
- USD
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- low
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- estimate
- Scope
- estimate
- Comparability
- Comparability C C: different basis; use with caution when comparing
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
"IndicatorCode":"ORALHEALTH_DENTALHEALTHCARE_EXP_TOTAL","SpatialDimType":"COUNTRY","SpatialDim":"VNM","TimeDim":2019,"Value":"57.0","NumericValue":56.960810000
Locator: WHO GHO OData API, indicator ORALHEALTH_DENTALHEALTHCARE_EXP_TOTAL ('Total expenditure on dental healthcare in million (US$)'), VNM 2019
Local definition
Total expenditure on dental healthcare, million US$ (WHO Global Oral Health Status Report 2022 data)
Source
World Health Organization: WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (oral health and health workforce indicators). Registry entry: vn-who-gho.
Notes
WHO modelled estimate, value in million USD (56.96081 x 1,000,000). Per-capita indicator gives 0.59649 USD for 2019, which looks implausibly low for a market where private dental care is common; treat as indicative only and likely an undercount of private out-of-pocket spending.
Metric definition
Total dental spending All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | US$56.96 million | estimate | Comparability C | WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (oral health and health workforce indicators) |
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