People living in Singapore are more materialistic and less satisfied with life than their American counterparts and thus have a lower desire for children, says a team led by Norman P. Li of Singapore Management University. It is apparently at least in part for this reason that the fertility rate in Singapore, at 1.09 births per woman's lifetime, is about half the U.S. fertility rate of 2.05, the researchers say. Fertility rates in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan have dropped below levels required to sustain the countries' populations.
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