Singapore Lowest Birth Rate!

[Mllcg]

Japan is not quite the outlier it is often assumed to be. True, its fertility rate – at 1.41 births per woman – is well below the 2.1 needed to replenish a population. However, according to George Magnus, author of The Age of Aging, fully 62 countries, home to nearly half the world’s population, including Britain, have fertility rates below replacement level. Japan is by no means the world’s least fecund country. Below it come the likes of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Belarus, Bosnia, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Germany, Italy, Greece and Hungary all have almost exactly the same fertility rate as Japan. China, at about 1.5, is in danger of growing old before it becomes rich. Singapore produces the lowest number of babies in the world – at just 0.79 per woman. “The key feature of today’s low fertility rates,” says Magnus, “is that they are pretty much universal.”

 

full article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/07d4c8a8-7e45-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

 

huat! world number 1 again.

[Blackyv]

Japan is not quite the outlier it is often assumed to be. True, its fertility rate at 1.41 births per woman is well below the 2.1 needed to replenish a population. However, according to George Magnus, author of The Age of Aging, fully 62 countries, home to nearly half the worlds population, including Britain, have fertility rates below replacement level. Japan is by no means the worlds least fecund country. Below it come the likes of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Belarus, Bosnia, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Germany, Italy, Greece and Hungary all have almost exactly the same fertility rate as Japan. China, at about 1.5, is in danger of growing old before it becomes rich. Singapore produces the lowest number of babies in the world at just 0.79 per woman. The key feature of todays low fertility rates, says Magnus, is that they are pretty much universal.

 

full article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/07d4c8a8-7e45-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

 

huat! world number 1 again.

I'm Soooo proud to have 2... Way above the 0.79... Hehehe..

[Hiphiphoray]

Me too. Me too..........

 

Give me a High-Five Bro!!!!

 

I'm Soooo proud to have 2... Way above the 0.79... Hehehe..

 

[Jonpaul0104]

I'm Soooo proud to have 2... Way above the 0.79... Hehehe..

I win u by a little bit....i got 3 kids.....so my TFR is 1.5......

[Toothiewabbit]

Which begets the question : which method is most responsible for this?

[Jman888]

I'm Soooo proud to have 2... Way above the 0.79... Hehehe..

 

But replacement rate is 2.1, you still short of 0.1

[Chucky2007]

Me too above average at 2!

[Tigerwoods]

Japan is not quite the outlier it is often assumed to be. True, its fertility rate – at 1.41 births per woman – is well below the 2.1 needed to replenish a population. However, according to George Magnus, author of The Age of Aging, fully 62 countries, home to nearly half the world’s population, including Britain, have fertility rates below replacement level. Japan is by no means the world’s least fecund country. Below it come the likes of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Belarus, Bosnia, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Germany, Italy, Greece and Hungary all have almost exactly the same fertility rate as Japan. China, at about 1.5, is in danger of growing old before it becomes rich. Singapore produces the lowest number of babies in the world – at just 0.79 per woman. “The key feature of today’s low fertility rates,” says Magnus, “is that they are pretty much universal.”

 

full article: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/07d4c8a8-7e45-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html#slide0

 

huat! world number 1 again.

this fertility rate was pushed down due to the importation of people into Singapore right ?

If they count only based on the true population of citizens (ok PRs can include lah), I think its higher.

CMIIW.

But replacement rate is 2.1, you still short of 0.1

I have 3 kids so what is the rate ah ?

[Ender]

But replacement rate is 2.1, you still short of 0.1

Guilty here, we also didn't do enough for the country. Stopped at 2.

[Icedbs]

sorry folks...I didn't want kids....so

[Jman888]

sorry folks...I didn't want kids....so

 

Gahment should start to fine people who dun want kids.

[Zanter]

They should withdraw all the baby benefits cos it is obviously not working :P

[Mustank]

But replacement rate is 2.1, you still short of 0.1

 

that is because some joker bo joh kang

 

end up we the rest got to pick up the slack

[Baal]

They should withdraw all the baby benefits cos it is obviously not working :P

No need to withdraw since not many will eventually utilize it. But it puts them in nice light, to show that they are helping & helping but its the sinkies whom dun want to help themselves.

[Celicar]

This is no laughing matter. What this amounts to is a heavier burden on OUR next generation.

[Hiphiphoray]

Pure breed born n raise in spore family is already an endangered species as we speak. Lollllll.

[comegetme]

Side track abit, someone told me China's population is growing.

But if they have a 1 child policy, how can it still be growing?

 

Likewise, if low fertiliy is everywhere, then why is the world population still growing?

[Aventador]

Likewise, if low fertiliy is everywhere, then why is the world population still growing?

Because we have the most iPads in the world on a per capita basis

 

Those developing countries with no iPads play iPoke instead at night