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Slower population growth, ageing need not be alarming: economists

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Janice Heng

Janice Heng

Published Wed, Jun 16, 2021 · 09:50 PM

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    Growing and ageing

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    SINGAPORE'S population growth over the last decade slowed to 1.1 per cent per year, less than half of the 2.5 per cent annual rate in the decade before that, the latest Census of Population showed.

    While the trend of an ageing population persists, the economic implications are not necessarily that alarming, said economists.

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