Via the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s website, Singapore’s fertility rate is the lowest in the world among 222 countries, averaging just 0.78 children that would be born per woman if all women lived to the end of their childbearing years and bore children according to a given fertility rate at each age:
Based on the statistics above, any mathematician out there can do a calculation to find out roughly when born-in-Singapore Singaporeans will become extinct in our own land?
For regular readers of this blog, do you still remember this web infographics by BBC News on the world’s growing population I posted back in October 2011?
The clock is ticking faster and faster. Time is running out.