Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis

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Singapore's baby bust: Record low births in 2023 deepen demographic crisis
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Isn't this happening almost everywhere?

its generally happening in any country that has a reletively speaking, high GDP, because regardless of where you are in the world, the wealth tends to collect in a small group of people rather than get spread out.

It might be the media distorting it, but it seems like it's an especially big issue in East Asian countries. I didn't know about Singapore, but I know it's a serious issue in both South Korea and Japan, which are about to have a huge number of elderly and not enough people to care for them.