Their average life expectancy is expected to be 88.6 years.

As the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve, Do Thuy Duong let out her first scream at Hanoi's National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology, becoming the first baby to be born in Vietnam in 2021.

While UNICEF welcomes every birth, it signals a growing concern with the disturbing level of pre-birth sex selection in Vietnam – resulting in a very high rate of sex ratio imbalance at birth, with more than 110 boys per 100 girls, according to the 2019 Population and Housing Census.

Vietnam was listed among the three countries with the highest rate of sex ratio imbalance at birth, behind China and India.