Vietnam: Technical Assistance Report-Report on Government Finance Statistics and Public Sector Debt Statistics Mission (March 3–7, 2025)

An IMF Statistics Department mission visited Hanoi from March 3-7, 2025, to provide training and technical assistance to Vietnamese authorities on improving government finance and public sector debt statistics. The mission included a three-day workshop with representatives from the National Statistics Office, State Budget Department, Department of Informatics and Financial Statistics, Vietnam State Treasury, General Department of Taxation, and the State Bank of Vietnam. The workshop included both theoretical instruction and practical exercises, centered on identifying the scope of the Vietnamese general government sector as well as data sources and methods used for compiling fiscal statistics of the general government.