Singapore flags ‘structural decline’ without migrant workers


At the same time, Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Singapore is controlling the number of immigrants who will be allowed to work and that the number isn’t limitless nor excessive. - Bloomberg

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg): Singapore’s declining birth rate and its aging population require a sustained yet well calibrated influx of migrant workers, according to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.

"If we are not able to bring in immigrants to top up the population then we are in structural decline, and eventually the population will decline, the workforce will decline and Singapore will decline,” Wong said at the Reinventing Destiny conference in Singapore on Monday.

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