Dr Tan Poh Lin from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore (NUS) said that as the number of babies born over the years has declined, there will be fewer women of child-bearing age in the future.
Couple the falling births with the rising number of deaths in an ageing population, the academics noted, and the result is worrying.
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