Natural disasters cause people to flee Mekong Delta
The fear of natural disasters has caused more than 1.3 million people living in the Mekong Delta to migrate to HCMC and elsewhere.
The figure was published on Monday in the first annual Mekong Delta Economic Report coordinated by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and managed by Fulbright University Vietnam.
The number is alarming considering the number of emigrants in the past decade was larger than the population of some provinces in the delta.
According to the report, the Mekong Delta, with its 17.3 million residents, had zero population growth between 2009 and 2019 compared to the country’s 1.14 percent growth.
Cuu Long
