The per capita monthly income of Vietnamese people was averaged at 4.2 million Vietnamese dong (around 183 U.S. dollars) in 2020, down 1 percent year-on-year, according to a survey conducted by the country's General Statistics Office (GSO).

Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday to release the survey result, deputy head of the GSO Nguyen Trung Tien attributed the decrease to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Vietnam News Agency.

On the contrary, from 2016 to 2020, the per capita monthly income of Vietnamese people increased by 8.2 percent on average per year, according to the survey.

In the first half of 2021, however, over 1.1 million people in the working age were unemployed, up 101,700 from the same period last year, Vietnam News Agency cited Tien as saying.

Notably, the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak that started in late April has resulted in a higher unemployment rate in urban areas than that in rural areas, said the official.