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A decade of fertility below replacement level in Singapore

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Swee-Hock Saw
Swee-Hock Saw
Affiliation:
Department of Economics and Statistics, National University of Singapore
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Summary

This paper discusses fertility trends in Singapore during the decade 1975–84. Fertility first dropped below the replacement level in 1975 when the gross reproduction rate reached 1·006, and fell further to the low of 0·772 in 1984. During the same period all of the three main races, Chinese, Malays and Indians, experienced fertility below replacement level. The shortfall in the number of births required to ensure replacement fertility increased during the decade until it approached one-quarter in 1984.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 395 - 401
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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