Singapore's fertility rate hits record low of 1.16
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THE average number of children that a Singapore woman would bear in her lifetime dropped to yet another nadir last year.
Preliminary estimates of the Total Fertility Rate put it at 1.16, down from 1.22 - already a record low - the previous year, announced Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Wong Kan Seng on Monday.
Meanwhile, the number of new permanent residents has also gone down.
A total of 29,265 foreigners were granted permanent residency last year. This is half of the 59,460 given in 2009.
But the number of new citizens held steady at 18,758, a little shy of the 19,928 in the previous year.
Speaking at the Singapore Perspectives Conference organised by think-tank Institute of Policy Studies, DPM Wong also laid out the long-term thrust of Singapore's population strategy.
-- ST
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So? What about work permit holders? How many of them are still coming in to steal ricebowls.
Salute shit times for its selective reporting once again.
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if hubby n wife need to work, where to find time n power to make baby?
house not cheap, melamine powder oso very expensive
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apparently, the more the government harp on an aging population and the need to increase the number of workers to support the growing elderly, the less singaporeans are willing to create new citizens for the government.
why spend so much time and effort to have a child, when the government can easily import cheap foreign replacement ?
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Omg this warrents some concern.
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People just can't make babies when they know that PAP is still in power. Too turn off, LKY face makes people have massive nightmares, what if babies turn out to be LKY?
There's no way to turn this back, I can only suggest, reggressing the economic, shrink it to be tight, compact and nimble, then lots of foreigners can go home also.
Citizens here mostly too old and young, the working age people, quite a number working overseas. Actually can use some money and time to grow our citizens again, there's the only way, PAPist knows it but it will not fill their coffers and locals will not support them, PAPist will be voted out if they try to encourage locals to have more children.
So the only road is the extinction of locals and the rise of a class of mercenaries that will serve PAPist for now, but will ursurp their position through infiltration of PAPist own rank and file in a matter of years, ushering an era of closer cooperation between their own homelands and relegating the minority locals to a token presentation piece.
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a lot of people say job also don;t know will lose to floor traps or not how to even think of getting married or have babies!?
another reason for me is angie she don;t want. she say pain pain. but her father wants a grandson or granddotter.
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Originally posted by troublemaker2005:
a lot of people say job also don;t know will lose to floor traps or not how to even think of getting married or have babies!?
another reason for me is angie she don;t want. she say pain pain. but her father wants a grandson or granddotter.
ask her if you can get another woman to have a baby with u lor.
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Don't worry, we can import more people from overseas.
Then the vicious cycle begins again when they report a TFR of 1.01 in another 10 years time as life is so tough and expensive that nobody wants to have children anymore.
And then we import even more people from overseas.
I should be paid millions of dollars for coming up with this solution.
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Originally posted by charlize:
Don't worry, we can import more people from overseas.
Then the vicious cycle begins again when they report a TFR of 1.01 in another 10 years time as life is so tough and expensive that nobody wants to have children anymore.
And then we import even more people from overseas.
I should be paid millions of dollars for coming up with this solution.
lizzie, you should sell your soul and become one of the MIW.. you'll pay you a mint!!
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Originally posted by charlize:
Don't worry, we can import more people from overseas.
Then the vicious cycle begins again when they report a TFR of 1.01 in another 10 years time as life is so tough and expensive that nobody wants to have children anymore.
And then we import even more people from overseas.
I should be paid millions of dollars for coming up with this solution.
sure boh?
later only TFR only 0.1 only.
0.1 for the MIW to reproduce themselves.
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PAP got more reasons to import foreigners.
Look at Europe, muslims immigrating there. Islam taking over Europe.
Europe fetility rate low too.
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no money n time for making babies
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Originally posted by the Bear:
lizzie, you should sell your soul and become one of the MIW.. you'll pay you a mint!!
I don't know whether to take this as a compliment or an insult.
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Originally posted by charlize:
He should bet on "Dragon year" as maybe some supertitious people may wanna have "Dragon Babies". -
besides costs of living, modern marriages esp in Sg becomes a greater liability for men...causing late or delayed marriages....with lop sided gender policy adding fuel to the fire....