Vietnam calculated its unemployment rate at 1.9 percent late last year, a figure that included many well-qualified young people who had been jobless for more than a year.

Vietnamese labor exporters have gained permits to send workers to Angola, opening a new market for local job seekers. Hoang Long International Human Resources Supplying & Trading Company in Hanoi last month sent 20 construction workers to the southern African market, following 40 others in January, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported.

Japan has been recruiting more labor from Vietnam this year to help prepare for the 2020 Olympics and its future plans of business expansion in Vietnam.