Singapore Seeks Answers for Failing Fertility Levels
Birthrate continues to fall despite government’s best efforts
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Except where religion intervenes, lowering fertility rates around most of the world has proved remarkably easy. Average global fertility, the number of children born to a woman during her lifetime, has dropped from 5.0 in 1960 to 2.45 in 60 years. But increasing it again is proving a huge challenge that so far has outwitted the country that has tried ha…
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