All About Singapore Birth Rates

[Bishan_Mom]

I came across the Chinese papers last week that which carries a feature on P1 registration for this year and it mentioned than there will be more kids registering for P1 this year. I remember that the birth rate for 2002 is lower than 2001. The birth rate for 2002 is 40,800 and 41,400 in 2001; but the MOE is expecting about 43,200 kids to be registering for P1 this year compared to 42,100 last year.

[Bishan_Mom]

Here's the link to the article I mentioned (in Chinese) :


http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp080620_517.shtml

The article below mentioned top executives joining in the chase for top popular schools (namely Nanyang Primary) :

http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp080620_516.shtml

[ctct61t]

Bishan_Mom:

Here's the link to the article I mentioned (in Chinese) :


http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp080620_517.shtml

The article below mentioned top executives joining in the chase for top popular schools (namely Nanyang Primary) :

http://www.zaobao.com/sp/sp080620_516.shtml

Thank you very much, I hope my daughter can enter the best Primary school, but it seems too difficult for me.

[titank]

Hi All,


Anyone know what is the birth rates for 2003 & 2006? Anywhere can find this information?

[titank]

Oh have good information. But funny how come it did not reflect the 2000 (Dragon Year) in which many balloting occured in the popular school.

[phantom]

titank:

Hi All,


Anyone know what is the birth rates for 2003 & 2006? Anywhere can find this information?

Threads merged.

[ctct61t]

It’s really a great helpful information.


It’s so strange that the birth rate decrease yearly.

[lizawa]

[quote]Oh well, juz a tot that if with the low birth rate for that particular year born, kid get into Primary school maybe have higher chances.[/quote]
Not true all the time. MOE will get the schools to \"increase\" or \"decrease\" the no. of classes and vacancies accordingly. So for next year's P1 (ie. registering now), our school has 1 class less, means 30 less vacancy.

[Bishan_Mom]

Yes…we would assume that having a declining birth rate in the past few years, the "competition" for places will be relatively lower. But as I mentioned in another post, though birth rate for 2001 is higher than 2002, MOE is expecting a higher number of registration for P1 this year compared to last year. I assume this additional numbers are children of PRs & foreigners, who were not born in Singapore. Children of PRs could register in any of the earlier phases, but children of foreigners will have to register under phase 3.


Hmm…if MOE is expecting a higher number of kids registering for P1, then why are (a number of) schools reducing the number of classes this year?

[agent66]

But these figures do not include PR’s. So may not be a good gauge still.Anyway, still great to have these numbers.