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Communist Party of Vietnam No free and fair election, per V-Dem
Sources: National Statistics Office of Vietnam (national accounts, labour force survey and consumer prices, via the World Bank, the ILO and the IMF), World Bank (GDP, employment, population), IMF (consumer prices, labour force), Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, World Happiness Report, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons. CreditsPrivacy

Tô Lâm (Communist Party of Vietnam) has been General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam since 3 Aug 2024. In Sep 2026 inflation was 5.1% on a year earlier, 0.7 percentage points higher than when Tô Lâm took office in August 2024. Under Nguyễn Phú Trọng (2011 to 2024) inflation fell 7.4 percentage points. The latest governance scores, for 2025 and from before this tenure: rule of law 55.8 of 100 (the World Bank) and corruption perceptions index 41 of 100 (Transparency International). Tô Lâm, in office since August 2024, is the 6th holder of the office since 1991.

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