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Singapore began the mass vaccination of women (and men) of childbearing age in June 2021. In March of 2022, exactly nine months later, Singapore reported a dramatic decrease in births.
Singapore’s decline in birth rates practically overnight “is, to say the least, highly unusual,” Berenson noted. “And Covid itself, or ‘long Covid,’ whatever long Covid may be, cannot be blamed. Singapore had essentially no Covid until the fall of 2021 (well after mass vaccinations were complete).”
Roughly 98 percent of all the shots given in Singapore were mRNA from Pfizer or Moderna. Chinese vaccines using traditional inactivated virus technology made up the rest.
Singapore publishes comprehensive figures on births and deaths every quarter.
As other East Asian are experiencing, Singapore has seen a severe “baby bust” in recent years.
“The average woman in Singapore has fewer than 1.2 children, barely half the birth rate needed to avert a long-term decline in population,” Berenson noted.
