Official have already warned that Taiwan’s 23.92 million population could go into negative growth by 2031.Taiwan’s fertility rate is forecast to fall to the world’s lowest by 2035, although an anticipated turnaround by 2045 offers hope for the industrialised island that depends on a stable labour force for its signature hi-tech exports.
“The pandemic is hurting the economy, which affects people’s willingness to give birth or they put it off,” an official from the council’s personnel development section told the Post on Tuesday. The Taipei government is promoting use of digitisation and artificial intelligence to reduce reliance on labour in certain jobs, the council’s personnel division said.
Last year, Taiwan’s population shrank for the second consecutive year after dropping by 185,000 due to record-low births and marriages, an increased mortality rate and an exodus of 1 million people moving overseas. Births in 2021 totalled 153,820, down by 11,429 from 2020, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
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