Singapore has a golden 15-year window to throw everything it has at promoting parenthood, looking at the demographic data.

Two bulges in the population pyramid grouped by age profiles of citizens found in the Government’s Population in Brief 2022 report light the way.

The first bulge points to a population swell in people aged 55 to 64 – our first baby boom made of Generation Xers born to parents of the Pioneer and older Merdeka generation vintage.


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Gillian Koh is deputy director (research) and Gabriel Lim is research assistant, both of the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore. This is an expanded and updated version of an essay first published in IPS Commons in 2023.

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