The Birth Rate in Singapore

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Abstract
A declining birth rate in Singapore since the 1950s was in keeping with official policy and an active program of family planning. While there is no doubt that such measures contributed to a notable real fertility decline, age structure and patterns of nuptiality also played a major role in influencing the direction and scale of change in the birth rate. The relative significance of change in age-sex distribution, nuptiality patterns and marital fertility to birth-rate decline are examined by a decomposition procedure for each of the main ethnic groups. Association of certain social and economic characteristics with fertility levels is then discussed briefly. Overall policy implications were assessed.

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