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Singapore's Solution to Falling Birthrate? A Dating App
Newser • • world
Key Points:
- Singapore has launched FirstDate, a pilot dating app for civil servants aged 21 to 35, aiming to address its extremely low birth rate of 0.87 births per woman in 2025.
- The app uses the Gale-Shapley algorithm, a Nobel Prize-winning stable marriage algorithm, to generate one curated match at a time, avoiding typical "swipe fatigue."
- This initiative continues Singapore's history of government-led social engineering efforts to boost population growth, dating back to the Social Development Unit established in 1984.
- The app’s success could determine whether the program expands beyond civil servants to the broader population, though no official plans have been announced yet.
