Until the 1980s, most of the Vietnamese population still lived under the poverty line.

The Vietnamese population has jumped from 5,000 to 40,000 since 1980.

The Vietnamese population in the United States is about 615,000.

As of 2010, the Vietnamese American population has grown to near 1.8 million.

The depression nevertheless affected the central Vietnamese local population in some ways.

Washington has the largest Vietnamese population, by percentage, of any state - with nearly 20,000 people who moved here from Vietnam since 1975.

Among the global ethnic Vietnamese population, it is the 5th most common name accounting for 5% of the total 75 million.

Atlanta is home to one of the fastest-growing Vietnamese populations in the world.

Orange County in California, which has a very large Vietnamese population.

Among the Vietnamese population, the perception was that those recruited would never set eyes on their homeland again.