THE MANPOWER SITUATION IN NORTH VIETNAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T02095R000900060001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 25, 2004
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: September 7, 1967
• Content Type: IM

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1. North Vietnam's Population at the beginning of 1967 was
about 18.3 million people. The population includes app xi ately
4.2 million males botteen the s4ps of 15 and 4q, of wino about
half are believed to be thyeicall r fit for niuitary sarvi.cee. An
estima l 115,000 ph reics~tliy it n aill reach tae draft a e
of 17 duri. 1967. The North Viotnamse tri.llt; y force currently
is ectt teed at about 480,000.
2. The labor force estimated to be available to north
Vietnam totals about 9.7 million oo3.e of whom 55 jaacrcent arc:
fetnale. (Sea the Table.) The bulk of the labor force -?- 7 million
people -- is allocated to agriculture rand rye 60 percent of the
agricultural labor force is famlo:. The other major allocations
of labor include over 840,000 to the services sector of the
eco y, 817i 000 to industry, 426,000 to transportation and com-
munications, 282.,000 to trade and 250, 000 to construction.
War-Induced M~enr Requi.rts
3. The major mar-tuced por requirements In North
Vietnam are tvofold: (a) those required to support the build-up
of Come uniet military forces in both North and South Vietnam Lnd
to replace combat lases; end (b) the substantial diversions of
manpower required to counteract the a 'ectu of air strikes against
North VietvamE.
4. The rapid build-up of 3orth Vietnam's armed forces by
about 250,000 during the past to years to its present force level
of 480,000 has been accomplished without recourse to full mobili-
zation and this rate of build-up in expected to be much lower JIM the
next few yes. The military build-up alone has required about
120,000 persons a year during 1965 and lg6 r In addition, during
1966 North Vietnmeae combat and infiltration, losses probably
totaled from 35,00.45,000 persons and have undoubtedly been ru=ins
much higher in 1967. These manor requirements have been met,
for the most. part, by the drafting of almst all the 1.15,000
physically fit youths estimated to reach draft age annually. The
regime has also had to mobilize some reservists and to replace men
with vomen particularly in the underemployed agricultural labor
force. The regime hale.n?t been forced, hor, to alter the current
draft v4p of 17-35 or to resort to coercive measures to obtain mili-
tary manpower.
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