MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - After helping Liverpool administer an emphatic 3-0 victory over Manchester United, Mohamed Salah revealed that this would be his last season at Anfield.
PETALING JAYA: Terengganu, Kelantan and Pahang are the only states still producing enough babies to replenish their respective populations amid a rapid decline in Malaysia’s fertility rates .
"Only Terengganu, Kelantan, and Pahang are recording a TFR above the replacement level," chief statistician Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Uzir Mahidin said in a video presentation announcing Malaysia’s population trends. Terengganu, meanwhile, has the country’s highest fertility rate of 2.9 followed by Kelantan and Pahang .
The declining fertility rates means that the average size of a Malaysian family has also got smaller.Now, the average household size is 3.7 persons.Universiti Putra Malaysia’s Malaysian Research Institute on Ageing 's senior research officer Chai Sen Tyng said the main reason for declining fertility rates is the decline or delay in marriages.
"It is natural to want only the best for our children, but what kids actually want most is our attention and time," he said. "The reason why the poor have more children might be due to a lack of family planning, but the reality is that in agricultural societies, having more children means more hands to help and as insurance for old age," he said.Chai said educated women have options and may not want to be tied down to childbearing or childrearing."Educated women have options and I think this is key. Men have to realise this," he said.
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