askST: What is total fertility rate? What does Singapore’s record low rate mean?

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the falling number of births and rapidly ageing population have wide-ranging implications, from weakening family support networks to slowing economic growth. He also stressed the need to have a “carefully managed immigration flow to augment our low birth rate

If the TFR remains at 0.87, this would translate to just 44 children and 19 grandchildren for every 100 residents today....Over time, it will be practically impossible to reverse the trend because we will have fewer and fewer women who can bear children

This means there will be fewer people of working age supporting each senior in the population, and a smaller proportion of the population paying taxes.