1. ForecastsTaiwan

   Taiwan: all 6 UN projections since 2010 expected more births

   The UN's 2010 projection expected 177k births a year on average for 2020–2025; the outcome was 139k (−22%). The latest checked one: the UN's 2022 projection expected 187k births for 2025; the outcome was 108k (−42%).

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Taiwan: an older population than France
• Taiwan: lower fertility than Japan
• Taiwan: fewer babies were born in 2025 than in any year since 1906
• Taiwan: 1.5 times as many people aged 65+ as children under 15
• Taiwan: more people now die than are born
• Taiwan: now 1.4 times as many foreign-born residents as natives living abroad

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