Fewer entering the workforce than are going into retirement
Each Thai family should aim to have at least two children to help halt the country’s falling birthrate, Thailand’s most senior health official said on Tuesday, which is the UN’s World Population Day.
Suwannachai Wattanayingcharoenchai, director-general of the Department of Health, said there had been at least one million births in Thailand each year from 1963 to 1983, but the birthrate fell to 502,107 last year and is likely to be below 500,000 this year.
Simiar falling birthrates had been reported by 120 other countries, including China, Japan,…
