According to the data available on the progress of Vietnam in reaching the Millennium Development Goals, one can safely say that Vietnam is on its way to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

In light of the fact that Vietnam has a supportive environment working towards the achievement of the first MDG suggest that Vietnam will probably achieve the goal of eradicating poverty through halving the proportion living in extreme poverty by the year 2015. However, they are affected by the lack of land to cultivate and the increased rate of migration to urban areas.

The support that the country has been receiving in order to halve the proportion of people below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption and the proportion of underweight children under five years old has been weak but improving. Therefore Vietnam's ability to achieve these goals is rated as possibly. They have also been receiving a fair support to half the under-five mortality by two-thirds by 2015 thereby giving them the potential to achieve the goal/target.

In reaching the target of reducing the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters by 2015 they have been getting a fair support. However, like many other developing countries they are affected by lack of data and so it is difficult for someone to rate Vietnam's progress. Although the support that Vietnam has been getting is fair it is likely that they will achieve the target of ensuring universal access to safe/reliable reproductive health services (contraceptive methods) by 2015.

It is almost certain that Vietnam will achieve universal primary education for all. The same is for their ability to get equal access for boys and girls to primary and lower secondary schooling by 2005, however, it is unlikely that they will be able to provide equal access for boys and girls to upper secondary education by 2005. Vietnam must be commended for the strong support they have been getting in halving the proportion of people unable to reach or afford safe drinking water by 2015.

And they possess the potential of implementing national strategies for sustainable development by 2005 so as to reverse the loss of environmental resources by 2015 as well as stopping and reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. It must be noted that they have experienced at least five problems in this area concerned with HIV/AIDS these include leadership and coordination, protecting young people from the epidemic and its impact, care and support, stigma and discrimination and reducing the vulnerability of injecting drug users and sex workers to HIV infection.