Southeast Asia
Vietnam
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
The EU is Vietnam's #5 import source (world lens). Vietnam is the EU's #24 goods supplier.
Vietnam on the world stage
Total imports
$325.4bn
2023 annual
Total exports
$353.1bn
97 partners
#1 import source
China
34.0%
#1 export dest.
USA
27.5%
2023 annual, UN Comtrade (HS TOTAL, all partners). Line colour: coverage (exports/imports per partner).
Vietnam and the EU
EU imports from
€64.4bn
2.5% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€12.2bn
0.5% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #24 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.19
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
74
EUR/MWh
Consumer
90
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
477
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
45%
of generation
Wholesale 68 EUR/MWh · regulated market
Power market
● Transmission bottleneckMarket model
Single buyer (partial competitive generation)
Direct PPA
Allowed
grid access: limited
Reserve margin
–
Regulator
Not independent
Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam (ERAV)
A single-buyer EVN and an underbuilt north–south 500 kV backbone cannot move a southern solar and wind boom to the load-heavy north, so Vietnam curtails clean power in the south while the north blacks out; retroactive…
Tracked infrastructure
16 gas plants
8.1 GW · 2 building
76 coal plants
27.2 GW · 7 building
79 wind farms
4.6 GW · 31 building
160 solar farms
13.0 GW · 4 building
52 hydro plants
14.7 GW · 3 building
6 steel plants
17,360 ktpa · 1 building
22 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Metal mining
Tagged mines
14
none in the merged layer
Acid-drainage prone
1
high water-risk ore class
Main commodities
Aluminium, Other (poly)-metallic, Iron
Mine-water verifiability
Partial
Mekong River Commission monitoring + ASEAN Water Portal
Water risk is inferred from the ore class, not site measurements. Global mines: full layer →
Monitored ports (7)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
32.9
→ 40.2 by 2050
Fertility
1.9
below replacement
Working-age
67.7%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
13.4
→ 31.7 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 101M · peaks 2049
By 2050: +9% (110M)