Bloomberg.com
17 Aug 2008
By Jean Chua
Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Singapore's birth rate declined to 1.29, just more than half of the target needed for the population to replace itself, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said today.
The city-state of 4.6 million people will be halved in one generation if the birth rate doesn't increase to 2.1, Lee, 56, said during his annual National Day Rally speech today.
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