GDP growth: highest in 5 years
According to the General Statistics Office, GDP growth in 2015 was estimated to increase by 6.68% over 2014, higher than the proposed target of 6.2% and the growth rate of years from 2011 to 2014, showing the clear recovery of Vietnamese economy. The industry and construction sector increased by 9.64%, 6.42% higher than the previous year and contributed the most to GDP growth (3.2 percentage points). FDI flows and FTAs will create momentum for this sector to prosper in 2016. At the end of 2015, the whole economy scale at current prices reached 4192.9 trillion, GDP per capita was up 57 USD compared to 2014, reached 2,109 USD.
GDP growth in the period of 2011 - 2015

Industrial production recover better than expectation, especially in the manufacturing industry
Industrial Production Indexes (IIP) was estimated to
grow by 9.8% from 2014, higher than 2013’s increase of 5.9% and 2014’s increase
of 7.6%. Of which the manufacture rose 10.6%, account for the highest shares of
the total growth.
Industrial production index (2011 - 2015)

Positive factors for capital inflows in 2016
Realized FDI in 2015 was estimated at $ 14.5 billion, up 17.4% compared with the previous year, showing that the level of putting capital into real economic activity has been improved. The extension of the holding shares limit for foreign investors in Vietnamese companies, stable macro economic and financial fundamentals and the attractiveness of a market in strong integration process will create momentum for the inflows into Vietnam in the coming time.
The financial stability
The year of 2015 is considered as the successful year of financial and monetary policymakers in Vietnam: Inflation rate was kept at the lowest in 14 years, less than 1%; in addition to stable exchange rate, lower interest rates, higher exports value and a surplus payments balance
Exports growth was lower than target but remained "spotlights" compared with other countries in the region
In 2015, exports increased by 8.1% compared to 2014, lower than planned (10%) mainly due to sharply decline of export prices from the previous year, with the average decrease of export price of 3.8 %, of which crude oil price has fallen by 53%. But it is also a very good result compared with the growth of only 2% in, the loss of 7.8% in China export growth and worse result of Malaysia where export witnessed the 14th consecutive month’s decline in November, 2015. In 2016, Vietnam's exports could be improved with 90.8% of enterprises orders export seeing rising or stable compared with 2015.
Motivation to overcome these challenges...
In the context of global economic uncertainty, HSBC remains the GDP growth forecast for Vietnam in 2016 at 6.7%. IMF and World Bank also raised forecast for economic growth of Vietnam to 6.4% and 6.6%, respectively.
The business confidence of businesses is also more optimistic. According to the survey of business trends of enterprises manufacturing and processing sector conducted by Vietnam GSO, 40.9% of enterprises believe the trend will well up in quarter 1, 2016; and 41.4% expect that production will stabilize business. 91.6% forecast higher production volume in 2016 compared to 2015. This optimism confidence is on number of orders statistics. Accordingly, 80% of enterprises saw the number of orders increased or stable in quarter 4, 2015 and 91.1% of companies are optimistic about the number of orders in 2016. Vietnam market was also assessed other supporting factors for growth in 2016, including young population, high urbanization levels and increase in total retail sales of goods and consumer services revenue.
