The resident total fertility rate fell to below 1 in 2023 for the first time in Singapore’s history.
Women aged between 21 and 34 were significantly less interested in marriage and parenthood than men in their age group.
Professor Jean Yeung, director of social sciences at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s Institute for Clinical Sciences and a professor at NUS’ Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, said: “Since we will have an increasingly small number of women at a marriageable and child-bearing age, and births outside of wedlock are illegitimate in Singapore, the number of citizen births will likely continue to decline if the marriage rates keep declining.
But between 2005 and 2023, the drop in the TFR was due to the fall in the proportion of married women, which offset slight increases in marital fertility. Population experts say that many Singaporeans feel that they do not have to marry, if they cannot find Mr or Miss Right, hence the increasing prevalence of singlehood.
“These individuals were viewed with some level of pity, with others supposing their lives would not be fulfilled, or they had some characteristic which made them less desirable as marriage partners.” But given the gravity of the matter, population experts say Singapore cannot afford to see the baby drought as a lost cause.
Prof Yeung said: “If the leave needs an extra layer of approval from the employers, that deters fathers from asking for them, and fewer fathers will take them.
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