Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/02/02
By: Wang Cheng-chung and Shih Hsiu-chuan

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Taipei, Feb. 2 (CNA) Taiwan’s working-age population fell to a record 72.52 percent at the end of 2018, indicating a growing burden on the workforce, data from the Ministry of the Interior showed Saturday.

The working-age population, defined as citizens aged 15-64, was 17.11 million as of the end of last year, the lowest since 2012, according to the MOI. The figure represented 72.52 percent of the country’s population of 23.59 million, the data showed.
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