Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis
Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis
Singapore's baby drought deepens, with 2023 seeing the lowest number of births in at least 50 years. Meanwhile, deaths remain high, exacerbating the country's demographic challenges.Thanks for reading population.news! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work.
Isn't this happening almost everywhere?
its generally happening in any country that has a reletively speaking, high GDP, because regardless of where you are in the world, the wealth tends to collect in a small group of people rather than get spread out.
It might be the media distorting it, but it seems like it's an especially big issue in East Asian countries. I didn't know about Singapore, but I know it's a serious issue in both South Korea and Japan, which are about to have a huge number of elderly and not enough people to care for them.
It’s ridiculously expensive to live in singapore
0.97 PFF! Wake me up again when they're down at 0.52 like Korea, then you might get my attention.
South Korea is low, but I'm sure it's not that low.
kagis
Yeah.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/09/asia/south-korea-government-population-birth-rate-intl-hnk/index.html
South Korea has the world’s lowest fertility rate, which indicates the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime. It recorded a rate of just 0.72 in 2023