SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): The growing share of women remaining single is one major reason for Singapore’s longstanding baby drought, with the resident total fertility rate (TFR) falling to below 1 in 2023 for the first time in Singapore’s history.
A Department of Statistics (DOS) analysis of the factors behind the falling TFR found that the drop in the TFR between 2005 and 2023 was due to a decline in the proportion of married women, which offset slight increases in the fertility rate of married women.
