PM Lee: Singapore's fertility rate up last year

• QX179R

  22 Jan 12, 10:19

  Singapore's Total Fertility Rate (TFR) picked up slightly last year to 1.20, up from a historic low of 1.15 in 2010.

  The Prime Minister announced the figure on Saturday in his Chinese New Year message, which focused on the central role of families as anchors for identity and sense of belonging, and sources of support in good times and bad.

  Mr Lee Hsien Loong also said: 'I fervently hope that this year will be a big Dragon year for babies.'

  Historically, Singapore enjoys a baby boom every Dragon year, which comes round every 12 years.

  -- ST

• charlize

  22 Jan 12, 10:58

  We need more people to contribute to gdp growth. 

• mancha

  22 Jan 12, 11:59

  Times are bad. 

• mancha

  22 Jan 12, 12:04

  The fertility rate is always there. The number of people who are infertile, is very low.

  So it is just a matter of the number of unprotected sexual intercourse. The higher the number, the higher the chances of conception. And of the number of conception, the number allowed to gestate to full term is also a factor.

  It is not the fertility rate that has gone up, it is the number of unprotected sex that is happening has gone up.

  People are bonking more. Times are bad. 

   

• FireIce

  22 Jan 12, 12:06

  still not 2. what's there to cheer abt
• charlize

  22 Jan 12, 23:48

  Singaporeans are just too obedient at stopping at 2.

   

  Now they stop at just 1. 

   

  Or none. 

• Hitman Factory 1

  23 Jan 12, 07:32

  how does pm lee knows the fertility rate of girls are up unless looked at their insides to check how fertile they are n examined in detail all the wimen in spore!!???

  think correct terms should be birth rate and not fertility rate!makes the pm lee sound like a sex maniac.