what is post-war population problems?

Question

post-war population problem face by singapore from 1947 to 1960s

Answer 1

Here is a good article on population issues in Singapore:
http://countrystudies.us/singapore/14.htm

Long story short, after the war, from 1947 to 1957, Singapore had an annual growth rate of 4.4 percent. The government, seeing such rapid expansion as a threat to economic prosperity, instituted birth control policies and reduced the rate to 2.5 percent by 1965.