SINGAPORE: On Thursday (Feb 26), Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong said that with Singapore’s citizen population growing by only 0.7 last year, it may be that by the early 2040s, the citizen population will begin to shrink. The city’s total fertility rate (TFR) reached a new low of 0.87 in 2025. In 2023 and […] This article ( ‘In today’s economy, working full-time is a financial necessity’ — Singaporeans react to historic low fertility rate ) first appeared on The Independent Singapore News .