Family planning in Vietnam has become a long way and made remarkable achievements. In the past, the population-family planning policy focused on only one content: family planning to reduce births. Now, the population policy will focus on population and development. This is a significant turning point of Vietnam's population policy in a new period with more content and a broader scope. Therefore, this article will focus on clarifying the changes in population policy from 1961 to the present (the year 2020), thereby give some suggestions for better population policy implementation in the future.