Taiwan’s working age population fallsAGED RISING: The DGBAS said the statistics from the census conducted last year provide more evidence that Taiwan is an aging society and has a falling birthrateStaff writer, with CNAThe working age population in Taiwan shrank for the first time since the nation started conducting regular population censuses seven decades ago, the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said on Tuesday. Citing tallies from the latest population census, which was completed at the end of November last year, the DGBAS said in a statement that the working age population, referring to people aged 15 to 64, was 16.55 million, a drop of 169,000 from the previous census in 2010. Taiwan’s working age population accounted for 71.5 percent of its entire permanent resident population, which excludes migrant workers, which was 23.13 million last year, the DGBAS said. Including migrant workers, the population was 23.83 million last year, a 0.3 percent decline from a decade ago, the statement said. Among the permanent resident population, 22.91 million were Taiwanese and about 921,000 were foreign nationals, it said.

Source: Taipei Times September 01, 2021 15:56 UTC