Balance of payment of Vietnam under French rule

Appendix 2 : Vietnam’s demographic data under French rule according to official sources and population and labour force estimates

Readers interested in these matters are kindly requested to refrain from using these data and estimates without the agreement of the authors (to M. Banens in the case of the estimates). Further investigations are required before considering these series as perfectly reliable.

List of tables

Table 1: Vietnam's total population : 1901-1955

Table 2: Population of Annam

Table 3: Population of Cochinchina

Table 4: Population of Tonkin

Table 5: Vietnam's population by ethnic groups

Table 6: Urban population in Hanoi and Haiphong

Table 7: Urban population of Saigon-Cholon

Table 8: Employment in civil administration

Table 9: Employment in the Annamite Guard

Table 10: Employment in public primary education

Table 11: Employment in Health services

Table 12: Employment in mining industry

Table 13: Employment of Natives and Chinese in French or foreign-owned companies in 1939

Table 14: birth, death and growth rates before 1945

Table 15: Viet-Nam during the period 1950-55

Table 16: Population and growth rate : 1901-1960

Table 17: Catholic population in Viet-Nam in 1929

Table 18: Main ethnic groups in Viêt-Nam in 1943

Table 19: European population in Viet-Nam

Table 20: Infant mortality among Vietnamese population in Hanoi (1925-1938)

Table 21: Birth, death and infant mortality Saigon-Cholon area's Asian population in during the 1937 year

Table 22: Death registration in Vietnam (1951-1952)

Table 22: Birth and death declared in Cochinchina's Asian population (1913-1937)

Table 23: Birth and death declaration in Vietnam's main cities (1949-1953)

Table 24: Estimates of Vietnam's population by age (female, 1908-1953)

Table 25: Estimates of Vietnam's population by age (female, 1958-1993)

Table 26: Estimates of Vietnam's population by age (male, 1908-1953)

Table 27: Estimates of Vietnam's population by age (male, 1958-1993)

Table 28: Estimates of Vietnam's labour force* by age and gender (1908-1953)