Market · Southeast Asia
Vietnam has 9.9 dentists per 100,000 people (estimate basis, 2024)
Dental market data for Vietnam: 9 sourced metrics with as-of dates, source links and comparability ratings; gaps are listed explicitly.
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Vietnam had 9.9 dentists per 100,000 people in 2024 (basis not stated), derived from 10,000 dentists (FDI World Dental Federation NLO Reports 2024 compilation) divided by total population (World Bank WDI).
Key points
- Vietnam had 10,000 dentists in 2024 (basis not stated), according to FDI World Dental Federation NLO Reports 2024 compilation.
- Vietnam had 1,652 new dental graduates in 2023, according to Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023.
- Vietnam had 17 dental schools in 2023, according to Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023.
- Vietnam spent about US$56.96 million on dental care in 2019, according to WHO Global Health Observatory OData API.
- Vietnam has no reliable figure for dentists (a source exists but could not be read). See the data record.
Coverage of the expected metric set: 7 of 12 have a value (0 of them stale), 5 are documented as no reliable figure, 0 are not yet collected. See the coverage matrix.
Cite this
Dental Market Radar (dentalmarketradar.com), Vietnam dental market data, https://dentalmarketradar.com/markets/vn/
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Key stats
Versus the region
What is the population of Vietnam?
Vietnam had a population of 102,300,000 in 2025, according to National Statistics Office of Viet Nam Press release.
What is the GDP per capita of Vietnam?
Vietnam had a GDP per capita of US$5,026 in 2025, according to National Statistics Office of Viet Nam Press release.
How many dentists are there in Vietnam?
Vietnam had 10,000 dentists in 2024 (basis not stated), according to FDI World Dental Federation NLO Reports 2024 compilation.
How many dentists per 100,000 people does Vietnam have?
Vietnam had 9.9 dentists per 100,000 people in 2024 (basis not stated), derived from 10,000 dentists (FDI World Dental Federation NLO Reports 2024 compilation) divided by total population (World Bank WDI).
How many dental clinics are there in Vietnam?
No official count of dental clinics for Vietnam is available to us (a source exists but could not be read). We do not estimate one. See the data record.
How many dentists graduate each year in Vietnam?
Vietnam had 1,652 new dental graduates in 2023, according to Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023.
How many dental schools are there in Vietnam?
Vietnam had 17 dental schools in 2023, according to Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023.
Tier-1 snapshot
| Metric | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 102,300,000 persons | estimate | Comparability B | Value | |
| GDP per capita (US$) | US$5,026 | estimate | Comparability A | Value | |
| Dentists (total) | 10,000 persons | estimate | Comparability B | Value | |
| Dentists (practising) | Source blocked why | other | Comparability not rated | Not available | |
| Dentists per 100,000 population | 9.9 per 100,000 | estimate | Comparability B | Value | |
| Dental hygienists total | No figure found why | other | Comparability not rated | Not available | |
| Dental technicians total | Not published why | other | Comparability not rated | Not available | |
| Dental graduates annual | 1,652 persons | estimate | Comparability C | Value | |
| Dental schools total | 17 schools | other | Comparability A | Value | |
| Dental clinics total | Source blocked why | other | Comparability not rated | Not available | |
| Hospitals with a dental department | Not published why | other | Comparability not rated | Not available | |
| Dental public coverage | Partial. Social health insurance (BHYT) pays for dental examinations and basic dental procedures at contracted facilities at MOH-set prices (e.g. extractions,… | other | Comparability B | Value |
Per-capita rates use World Bank total population for the same year; the national statistics figure stays in the Context table below.
Workforce
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists (total) | 10,000 persons | estimate | Comparability B | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Value | |
| Dentists (practising) | Source blocked why No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2022/2024 (total only), NSO Vietnam press releases, peer-reviewed workforce paper (HCMC only: 2,219 BSRHM in 2023), WHO GHO HWF_0011 (no VNM data). Why:… | other | Comparability not rated | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Not available | |
| Dentists in clinics (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Dentists per 100,000 population | 9.9 per 100,000 | estimate | Comparability B | World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) | Value | |
| Dental hygienists total | No figure found why No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021) Đề án nâng cao năng lực khám chữa bệnh RHM 2021-2030, FDI NLO reports, WHO GHO HWF_0012 (no VNM data). Why: Viet Nam has no… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| Dental technicians total | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021) (contains only a TARGET: 'Tổng số điều dưỡng, kỹ thuật viên răng hàm mặt được đào tạo' = 5000 by 2030, not a current count), WHO GHO… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| Dental graduates annual | 1,652 persons | estimate | Comparability C | Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023 (Nguyen Duc Hue et al.) | Value | |
| Dental schools total | 17 schools | other | Comparability A | Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023 (Nguyen Duc Hue et al.) | Value | |
| Dentists public sector (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Dental therapists total (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Dental new licences annual (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Oral health therapists total (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Dental prosthetists total (tier 2) | No record | No record | ||||
| Dentists specialists total (tier 2) | No record | No record |
Facilities
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dental clinics total | Source blocked why No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT, NSO press releases and yearbook pages (health chapter counts hospitals/commune stations, no dental clinic line), peer-reviewed HCMC… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| Hospitals with a dental department | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (states some district hospitals have no dentist, no count), NSO health statistics. Why: number of hospitals with an RHM department is not… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| DSO share of dental clinics (%) (tier 2) | No figure found why No reliable figure found. Why: no official national dental clinic total (denominator) and no listed dental chain with audited clinic counts identified on HOSE/HNX. Private chains exist but clinic… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| Dental businesses total (tier 2) | No record | No record |
Self-pay
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Implant procedures annual (tier 2) | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628 (implants named as a technique to develop, no volume), FDI NLO reports, web search for official/industry figures. Why: implants are self-pay and… | other | Comparability not rated | Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 | Not available | |
| Clear aligner cases annual (tier 2) | No figure found why No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, web search. Why: no official or credible industry figure for Viet Nam; market-research teasers excluded by rule. Best lead: Align Technology country… | other | Comparability not rated | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Not available | |
| Self-pay share of dental spend (%) (tier 2) | No figure found why No reliable figure found. Checked: WHO GHO oral-health expenditure indicators (total and per-capita only, no financing split). Why: Viet Nam National Health Accounts do not publish a dental line on… | other | Comparability not rated | WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (oral health and health workforce indicators) | Not available | |
| Total dental spend (US$) (tier 2) | US$56.96 million (stale) | estimate | Comparability C | WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (oral health and health workforce indicators) | Value (stale) | |
| Dental public coverage | Partial. Social health insurance (BHYT) pays for dental examinations and basic dental procedures at contracted facilities at MOH-set prices (e.g. extractions,… | other | Comparability B | Law 51/2024/QH15 amending the Law on Health Insurance (full text) | Value | |
| Dental spend local currency (tier 2) | No record | No record |
Digital
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intraoral scanners installed (tier 2) | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam;… | other | Comparability not rated | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Not available | |
| Chairside cadcam installed base (tier 2) | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam;… | other | Comparability not rated | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Not available | |
| Dental 3d printer installed base (tier 2) | Not published why No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam;… | other | Comparability not rated | NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) | Not available | |
| Ios penetration % dentists (tier 2) | No record | No record |
Sleep
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult OSA prevalence (%) (tier 2) | 8.5% (stale) | estimate | Comparability B | Study about the prevalence of the obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome in Vietnam (EPSASIE), Duong-Quy S et al. | Value (stale) | |
| Oral appliance reimbursement (tier 2) | No figure found why No reliable figure found. Checked: Law on Health Insurance as amended by Law 51/2024/QH15 (no OSA oral-appliance provision), BHYT technical-service price list under Circular 22/2023 (Krông Năng list;… | other | Comparability not rated | Law 51/2024/QH15 amending the Law on Health Insurance (full text) | Not available |
Context
| Metric | Latest value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 102,300,000 persons | estimate | Comparability B | Press release: socio-economic situation Q4 and year 2025 | Value | |
| GDP per capita (US$) | US$5,026 | estimate | Comparability A | Press release: socio-economic situation Q4 and year 2025 | Value |
Local definitions
- Population
- Dân số trung bình (average annual population), NSO preliminary estimate
- GDP per capita (US$)
- GDP bình quân đầu người theo giá hiện hành, converted to USD by NSO
- Dentists (total)
- Total number of dentists in the country as reported by the Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association (VOSA) national liaison officer to FDI; method not stated
- Dentists per 100,000 population
- Headline rate (DECISIONS L4/L5): dentists_total (estimate) divided by World Bank total population, same year
- Dental graduates annual
- Số sinh viên đào tạo trung bình/năm = average students trained (admitted) per year per faculty
- Dental schools total
- Universities with a Faculty of Odonto-Stomatology (Khoa RHM) training the 6-year Bác sĩ Răng Hàm Mặt degree
- Dental public coverage
- Luật Bảo hiểm y tế (Law on Health Insurance) as amended by Law 51/2024/QH15, effective 1 July 2025
Documented gaps
Reasons: No figure found (gap): we searched and found nothing; Not applicable (structural): the measure does not exist or does not apply there; Source blocked (blocked_source): a source exists but could not be read; Not published (not_published): the authorities do not publish it.
- Dentists (practising): blocked_source. No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2022/2024 (total only), NSO Vietnam press releases, peer-reviewed workforce paper (HCMC only: 2,219 BSRHM in 2023), WHO GHO HWF_0011 (no VNM data). Why: practising licences are issued by MOH and provincial health departments under the Law on Medical Examination and Treatment… (record)
- Dental hygienists total: gap. No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021) Đề án nâng cao năng lực khám chữa bệnh RHM 2021-2030, FDI NLO reports, WHO GHO HWF_0012 (no VNM data). Why: Viet Nam has no separately registered dental hygienist profession; Decision 5628 plans to open a new 'cử nhân điều dưỡng nha khoa' (dental… (record)
- Dental technicians total: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021) (contains only a TARGET: 'Tổng số điều dưỡng, kỹ thuật viên răng hàm mặt được đào tạo' = 5000 by 2030, not a current count), WHO GHO HWF_0013 / ORALHEALTH_HWF_DENTALPROSTHETICTECH_10K (no VNM data), FDI NLO reports. Why: kỹ thuật viên phục hình răng… (record)
- Dental clinics total: blocked_source. No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT, NSO press releases and yearbook pages (health chapter counts hospitals/commune stations, no dental clinic line), peer-reviewed HCMC workforce paper. Why: private dental clinics are licensed by provincial Departments of Health (Sở Y tế); no national aggregate… (record)
- Hospitals with a dental department: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (states some district hospitals have no dentist, no count), NSO health statistics. Why: number of hospitals with an RHM department is not published on accessible sites. Context: two national specialised dental hospitals (Bệnh viện RHM Trung ương Hà Nội, Bệnh… (record)
- DSO share of dental clinics (%): gap. No reliable figure found. Why: no official national dental clinic total (denominator) and no listed dental chain with audited clinic counts identified on HOSE/HNX. Private chains exist but clinic counts come only from company marketing. Best lead: provincial DoH licensing lists + chain websites, labelled low… (record)
- Implant procedures annual: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: MOH Decision 5628 (implants named as a technique to develop, no volume), FDI NLO reports, web search for official/industry figures. Why: implants are self-pay and not reported to any registry. Best lead: implant manufacturers' country sales (Osstem/Dentium Vietnam subsidiaries'… (record)
- Clear aligner cases annual: gap. No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, web search. Why: no official or credible industry figure for Viet Nam; market-research teasers excluded by rule. Best lead: Align Technology country disclosures (not broken out for VN). (record)
- Self-pay share of dental spend (%): gap. No reliable figure found. Checked: WHO GHO oral-health expenditure indicators (total and per-capita only, no financing split). Why: Viet Nam National Health Accounts do not publish a dental line on accessible sites. Context only: WHO GHED out-of-pocket share applies to all health spending, not dental. Best lead:… (record)
- Intraoral scanners installed: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam; market-research teasers excluded. Best lead: distributor or manufacturer country disclosures (medium/low). (record)
- Chairside cadcam installed base: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam; market-research teasers excluded. Best lead: distributor or manufacturer country disclosures (medium/low). (record)
- Dental 3d printer installed base: not_published. No reliable figure found. Checked: FDI NLO 2024, MOH Decision 5628 (mentions 3D printing/AI as development directions only), web search. Why: no registry or credible industry disclosure for Viet Nam; market-research teasers excluded. Best lead: distributor or manufacturer country disclosures (medium/low). (record)
- Oral appliance reimbursement: gap. No reliable figure found. Checked: Law on Health Insurance as amended by Law 51/2024/QH15 (no OSA oral-appliance provision), BHYT technical-service price list under Circular 22/2023 (Krông Năng list; no mandibular advancement device item seen). Why: no explicit rule found; Art.23(8) excludes 'thiết bị y tế thay thế'… (record)
Data notes
Series breaks: a change in source or definition inside a series. A jump across a break is never growth.
No series breaks documented.
Desk notes on gaps
What we have
- Population: NSO 2024 mid-term census (101,112,656 at 1 Apr 2024), NSO 2025 average-population estimate (102.3 M), World Bank WDI 2024 as a fallback.
- GDP per capita (USD): NSO 2025 (5,026) and 2024 (4,700).
- Dentists total: only from the Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association (VOSA) via FDI NLO reports: 7,000 (2022) and 10,000 (2024). These are round numbers with no stated method, so confidence is medium and comparability B. The rise between the two reports looks like a changed estimate, not measured growth.
- Dentists per 100k: derived, 9.89 (2024) and 7.02 (2022).
- Dental schools: 17 (2023, peer-reviewed survey). Graduates: a derived proxy of 1,652 a year. This is total annual training capacity across the 17 faculties, not actual graduates (comparability C).
- Public coverage: Law 51/2024/QH15 Art.23(8) excludes dentures. The BHYT price list (Circular 22/2023) shows that examination, extraction, sealing, endodontics and primary-tooth fillings are reimbursed.
- Tier 2: dental spend (WHO GHO 2019, about USD 57 M; low confidence, likely an undercount) and OSA prevalence (EPSASIE 2018: 8.5% at AHI>5, 5.2% at AHI>15).
Gaps and best leads
| Metric | Why missing | Best lead |
|---|---|---|
| dentists_total (official) | MOH does not publish a count on any site we can access. moh.gov.vn is disallowed by robots.txt. WHO GHO HWF_0010/0011/0012 still have no VNM rows (rechecked round 2). The NSO Statistical Yearbook 2024 counts only all doctors ("bác sĩ", 99.6k in 2022), with no dentist split. The WHO oral health country profile VNM 2022 shows "..." for dentists. | MOH Niên giám thống kê y tế (Health Statistics Yearbook); MOH licensing portal (Cục Quản lý Khám, chữa bệnh, kcb.vn); VOSA directly; reports to the national RHM sector meeting (giao ban ngành RHM) by the two national RHM hospitals |
| dentists_practising | Practising licences are issued by MOH and the provincial Departments of Health (Sở Y tế). No national aggregate is published. | Same as above; provincial DoH licence lists |
| dental_hygienists_total | No hygienist cadre exists in VN. Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021) plans to open a "cử nhân điều dưỡng nha khoa" (dental nursing bachelor) degree. | MOH yearbook (nurses by specialty); MOET programme codes |
| dental_technicians_total | Decision 5628 gives only a 2030 target (5,000 dental nurses/technicians trained). There is no current count. | MOH yearbook; dental-lab industry figures (medium/low confidence) |
| dental_graduates_annual (actual) | Only intake capacity is published (Table 1 of the 2024 paper). Several faculties have no graduates yet. | MOET graduate statistics; individual faculty announcements |
| dental_schools_total (current) | The 2023 count of 17 is likely out of date. News quotes VOSA saying "more than 22" training institutions; that figure is from news only and not verified. | MOET admissions list for code 7720501 Răng - Hàm - Mặt (moet.gov.vn robots disallows PDFs/downloads) |
| dental_clinics_total | Clinics are licensed by provincial DoH. No national total is published. The NSO Economic Census 2021 health volume (31/12/2020) counts 29,644 general, specialist and family-doctor clinics plus health centres as one group, with no dental split (null record vn.dental_clinics_total.2020 added). News says HCMC has "thousands" (lead only). | HCMC DoH clinic ranking/licensing lists (city-level only, not national); MOH yearbook; Economic Census 2026 microdata (VSIC 5-digit 86203 nha khoa, if published) |
| hospitals_with_dental_dept | Not published. The NSO Economic Census 2021 gives 1,029 hospitals in total, with no department split (null record vn.hospitals_with_dental_dept.2020 added). Decision 5628 gives only 5-year targets (100 general hospitals with an RHM specialty, 10 RHM specialist hospitals, both public and non-public), names 2 national RHM hospitals, and notes some district hospitals have no dentist. Its implementation table implies an RHM department in all 63 provinces, but that is not a count. | MOH yearbook; kcb.vn; MOH review conference for Decision 5628, phase 2021-2025 (news lead only) |
| self_pay_share_of_dental_spend_pct | The national health accounts have no dental line. | MOH/HSPI National Health Accounts |
| implants, aligners, IOS, CAD/CAM, 3D printers | No registry or credible industry figure exists. Market-research teasers (Ken Research etc.) are excluded by rule. | Osstem/Dentium Korean filings (DART) with VN subsidiary revenue; distributor disclosures |
| dso_clinic_share_pct | No official clinic total (denominator), and no listed dental chain was found on HOSE/HNX. | Provincial licensing lists plus chain websites (low confidence) |
| oral_appliance_reimbursement | No explicit rule was found. Art.23(8) excludes replacement devices, so appliances are probably self-pay (not confirmed). | MOH circular listing HI-covered medical devices; BHXH guidance |
| Public coverage: ortho/cosmetic exclusion | Not checked against an official text. | Consolidated Law on HI (VBHN 40/VBHN-VPQH 2026); MOH technical-service list |
Blocked / unreachable sites (not retried)
- moh.gov.vn: disallowed by robots.txt (per brief; not fetched).
- vbpl.vn (national legal database): 403 "Sorry, you have been blocked" on robots.txt.
- thads.moj.gov.vn (MOJ, hosts the consolidated HI law): 403 block page.
- thuvienphapluat.vn: Cloudflare challenge.
- gso.gov.vn and baohiemxahoi.gov.vn: connection failed (HTTP 000). The NSO now uses nso.gov.vn, which works.
- static.luatvietnam.vn: PDF links returned empty files (MOH annual reports 11/BC-BYT 2024 and 99/BC-BYT 2022 were not readable). These reports may contain national workforce and facility totals and are worth trying through another host.
- moet.gov.vn: robots.txt disallows .pdf, .doc and *.xls, so admissions PDFs there are off-limits.
- vjol.info.vn (Vietnam Journals Online, which hosts the dental journal Tạp chí Răng Hàm Mặt and HUBT and HPMU journals): robots.txt has
Disallow: /for ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai, so it was not read. A paper there, "Nâng cao năng lực khám chữa bệnh răng hàm mặt tại các bệnh viện ở Việt Nam" (hubt, article 190830), might hold hospital counts. It is a lead only. - hspi.org.vn (Health Strategy and Policy Institute): robots.txt
Disallow: /for all agents. - medinet.hochiminhcity.gov.vn (HCMC DoH): connection failed (HTTP 000). It was not retried.
- tapchiyhocvietnam.vn: robots.txt disallows article downloads for named AI bots only, and for * only /cache/. No relevant workforce paper was found there.
Validator note (for desk A)
- vn.population.2024 and vn.population.2025 fail the "number in quote" check, and the cause is the number format, not the data. Vietnamese writes thousands with "." and decimals with "," ("101.112.656", "102,3 triệu").
numbers_in()only treats space and comma as group separators, and it doesn't read "triệu" (million) with a decimal comma. Suggested fix: also treat "." as a thousands separator when it is followed by exactly 3 digits and the string has more than one such group, and turn "d,d" into "d.d" before applying the scale factors. The quotes are verbatim, so the records were left as they are.
Proposed metrics
dentists_public_sector(persons): VN sources (provincial reports, the HCMC 2023 paper: 597 public vs 1,622 private dentists) often split the workforce by public and private sector. This split is useful for DSO and private-market sizing.dental_training_intake_annual(persons): annual admissions capacity of dental faculties. VN and other fast-growing markets publish intake but not graduates.health_insurance_population_coverage_pct: share of the population covered by social HI. It is the context for dental_public_coverage.
Round 2 (2026-11-09): what was checked, no new values
- NSO Statistical Yearbook 2024 (nso.gov.vn/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NG-TONG-CUC-2024_OKIN_Final.pdf), health chapter table 387. It gives "Số bác sĩ" (all doctors: 87.4k in 2019, 95.7k in 2020, 98.0k in 2021, 99.6k in 2022) and its definition covers all medical-degree doctors. There is no dentist or RHM line, so it can't be used for dentists.
- NSO Economic Census 2021 health volume: health facilities are grouped by type only. Dental is not separated. Two null records were added for 2020.
- WHO GHO HWF_0010/0011/0012 for VNM still return empty. The WHO oral health country profile VNM 2022 (cdn.who.int) shows "..." for dentists, dental technicians and assistants.
- PubMed search (Vietnam AND dentists or workforce; 20 hits) found no national count. The surveys (PMC12142841 magnification devices; PMC11202812 SDF KAP with 436 licensed dentists registered for the 2023 national meeting) are samples, not a census.
- tapchiyhcd.vn 1458 (round 1 source), re-read: it has public-sector BSRHM counts by province, HCMC 2,219, and regional ratios. These come from the national RHM sector meetings (2017 and 2020). There is no national total.
- kcb.vn: the robots.txt rules allow most paths, but no practitioner statistics by specialty were found on the site (search only).
- Decision 5628 section VI: indicator 23 targets a dentist:population ratio of 1/10,000. These are targets, not observed values.
- Revision note: none. No existing record needs to change.
Sources
- Ministry of Health Vietnam statistics (Ministry of Health Vietnam)
- National Statistics Office (population) (National Statistics Office Vietnam)
- World Bank WDI: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) (World Bank (UN Population Division, national statistics offices and others))
- Press release: results of the 2024 Mid-term Population and Housing Census (National Statistics Office of Viet Nam (Cục Thống kê / formerly GSO))
- Press release: socio-economic situation Q4 and year 2025 (National Statistics Office of Viet Nam)
- World Development Indicators API (population) (World Bank)
- NLO Reports 2024 compilation (General Assembly binder) (FDI World Dental Federation (data supplied by Vietnam Odonto-Stomatology Association, VOSA))
- NLO Reports 2022 compilation (FDI World Dental Federation (data supplied by VOSA))
- Results of management of training and distribution of dentists ... Ho Chi Minh City, 2023 (Nguyen Duc Hue et al.) (Vietnam Journal of Community Medicine 65(CĐ8):54-61, 2024 (Institute of Community Health))
- Decision 5628/QĐ-BYT (2021): Project to improve odonto-stomatology treatment capacity and oral-health care 2021-2030 (Ministry of Health of Viet Nam (copy hosted by Đắk Lắk Department of Health))
- Law 51/2024/QH15 amending the Law on Health Insurance (full text) (National Assembly of Viet Nam (text hosted on Nghệ An provincial public-service portal))
- WHO Global Health Observatory OData API (oral health and health workforce indicators) (World Health Organization)
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