According to Minister of Trade and Industry Lee Hsien Loong, women in Singapore now have an average of only 1.7 children each, which means that each couple in the present generation will be replaced by only three-fourths of a couple in the next.
根據貿易與工業部長李顯龍的說法，現在新加坡平均一個婦女只產一．七個孩子；也就是說，下一代只有四分之三對夫婦。