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On the same day I read about Singapore’s declining birth rate The number of babies born here last year fell to an eight-year low, posing more demographic challenges for an ageing population. The Report on Registration of Births and Deaths 2018 said 39,039 births were registered last year, a 1.5 per cent drop from 2017. I read... 

  Phillip Ang * The author blogs at LikeDatOsoCanMeh.      Read More →

The Government announced that the number of babies born last year was the second lowest on record while the fertility rate dropped from 1.16 children in 2017 to 1.14, apparently the lowest on record. Fertility rates have been dropping globally except in Africa. The global fertility rate has halved in the last 50 years as infant...