Vietnam surpasses Indonesia on per-person GDP- Is Thailand next?

[Beijingwalker]

Vietnam surpasses Indonesia on per-person GDP. Is Thailand next?​

Indonesia’s US$1.5 trillion economy is still nearly triple that of Vietnam, whose marginal per capita lead may not last​

Sam Beltran
Published: 8:00am, 4 Nov 2026

Vietnam’s average economic output per person is set to overtake Indonesia’s, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Gross domestic product per capita, which provides a snapshot of a country’s standard of living, is projected to rise 8.9 per cent to US$5,259 in Vietnam this year – nearly double the figure a decade earlier and overtaking Indonesia’s US$5,153.

This would also rank Vietnam fifth among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, behind Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand.

 

[retaxis]

Vietnamese is a confucian style society with confucian habits so it is different from other south east asian nations (singapore also confucian with majority chinese).

Vietnam is already stealing a lot of thailand tourism now and soon will overlap thailand. But its technology industry is far lacking compared to China and East Asia still.

 

[Beijingwalker]

Vietnam is geographically South East Asia but culturally East Asia

 

[ety]

Lol, India is nobody in SEA today. Bharats can still dream to have Look East and Act East policies. It is not even one of the RCEP members.

 

[AViet]

Both are still very poor. Not worth to brag about. Please stop comparing Vietnam and Indonesia, we are brothers, just like Vietnamese and Chinese are brothers.