Business Times
Date: Apr 12, 2018
The island recorded more deaths than births in March for a second straight month, and government data released on Tuesday show that Taiwan officially became an “aged society” last month, with more than 14 per cent of the population aged 65 or older.
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increased government intervention in people’s love lives.
The interior ministry says it will organise more official match-making events in 2018 as part of a push to reverse a rapid ageing of Taiwan’s 24 million people.
The island recorded more deaths than births in March for a second straight month, and government data released on Tuesday show that Taiwan officially became an “aged society” last month, with more than 14 per cent of the population aged 65 or older.
Only Japan, where 28 per cent are in the 65-and-over club, has a higher proportion of elderly people in East Asia. [FULL STORY]
