Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/07
By: Central News Agency
Taipei (CNA) – Taiwanese nationals with foreign spouses from Southeast Asia made up
The number of Southeast Asian spouses overtook the number of Chinese spouses in weddings last year. (By Central News Agency)
about 40 percent of all transnational couples married last year, the first time since 2005 the number has surpassed that of Chinese spouses, according to the Ministry of the Interior (MOI).
According to the latest findings by the MOI, a total of 21,097 transnational couples married in Taiwan in 2017, accounting for 15.3 percent of all 138,034 marriages in the country.
This marks a six-year high in the number of foreign spouses, but in 2017 the number of spouses from Southeast Asia was also 4 percent higher than the number from mainland China.
In 2017, there were 8,569 Southeast Asian spouses, accounting for 40.62 percent of all transnational couples, followed by 7,634 mainland Chinese spouses, making up 36.19 percent and 1,316 or 6.24 percent from Hong Kong and Macau. Spouses from elsewhere accounted for 16.96 percent of the total. [FULL STORY]
