Vietnam

Summary
Vietnam is in the lower part of the medium tier of the DDI and has succeeded in reducing its digital dependencies even further. With its DDI value falling from 0.63 in 2010 to 0.56 in 2023, Vietnam is approaching the level of low-tier countries. Since 2018, the country's value has stabilised below 0.60. Although Vietnam is heavily reliant on patents, it has become far less dependent on ICT goods and foreign platforms, with the former dropping from 0.50 in 2010 to 0.36 in 2023 and the latter from 0.98 to 0.93. Meanwhile, Vietnam is also an outlier in terms of bilateral trade with technopoles. Its bilateral dependence on Chinese ICT goods has fallen substantially, from 0.75 in 2010 to 0.52 in 2023. It

Policies
Between 2020 and 2026, Vietnam’s policies aimed to enhance cybersecurity through localization of production. The government passed a national law in 2025 that explicitly encouraged domestic cybersecurity products to reduce dependency. The law set out binding localization requirements and authorized the Ministry of Public Security to enforce such. The law was preceded by a Politburo resolution in 2024 that set the tone of digital sovereignty and “Made in Vietnam” products.