SINGAPORE: Next year marks an ominous turning point for Singapore’s greying population, according to research by Francis Tan, an economist at United Overseas Bank Ltd in Singapore.
In 2018, the share of the population that’s 65 years and older will match those younger than 15 for the first time, Tan wrote in a report yesterday.
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