Up against an ageing problem


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 14 Dec 2003

IN less than eight years, Singapore’s population has risen by a quarter of its size, but this phenomenal growth hides a continuing demographic deterioration.  

It increased from three million to 4.2 million since 1995, which was one of the fastest increase rates in the world and planners are preparing for a maximum of five million in the future. 

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