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Hans Rossling's talk, "The best stats you've ever seen" had something to say about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w

Urbanization and education are the two most effective ways of getting a population to have fewer children. Singapore is a highly educated and urbanized country.

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I am pretty sure cost of living is #1 reason and certainly not education.

I just hope their population will be replaced by the Indians and Indonesians working to sustain their economy. Same goes for Dubai.

If that happens, it will come to resemble an Indian or Indonesian city.

This is a bit of a weird comment about Singapore because a significant part of their population is and always has been ethnically Indian (Tamil)

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