SINGAPORE experienced its worst baby drought last year, despite
the influx of immigrants of child-bearing age over the past
decade.
Last year saw 37,967 babies born - the lowest number since 2005,
when there were 37,492 births, figures from the Department of
Statistics show. Also, the racial balance is gradually changing,
demographers note, with a growing proportion of Indian babies and
babies of other minority ethnic groups in the last five years,
according to the latest figures from the Department of
Statistics.
-- ST