A survey carried out March 15-27 by an online job search website yes123 determined five primary reasons working age Taiwanese people are putting off childbirth
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/02
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – With only 193,000 births across Taiwan last year and a national
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fertility rate of only 1.125, many wonder why the trend continues to decline and how it might be reversed.
Currently Taiwan is third from last place for having the lowest birth rate in the world, ranking above only Singapore and Macau. A survey recently conducted in Taiwan sought to determine why Taiwan’s working age population were unable or unwilling to have children.
The three main reasons revealed by the survey data are; that office workers feel they do not have enough money to raise a child; they do not have enough money to purchase a house; and they are too busy and spending too much time at work to raise a child.
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