For the second consecutive month, the Taiwanese population grows. However, in annual terms, the figures remain negative. By 2025, one in five Taiwanese will be over the age of 65. South Korea still has the lowest fertility rate in the world. There are also demographic problems in Japan. At this rate, by the year 2100 China will have less than half its current population.
Taipei () – The population of Taiwan has increased for the second consecutive month, after reaching 23,194,554 inhabitants in August. This is revealed by the data published yesterday by the Ministry of the Interior. The increase with respect to July is 4,490 inhabitants; however, in year-on-year terms, the population shows a decrease, with 257,283 fewer people.
The growth of the last two months represents a reversal of the trend on the island, which reached a population peak in January 2020 with 23.6 million inhabitants. The country’s demographers estimate that Taiwanese society will become “super-aged”: by 2025, one in five citizens will be over 65.
In the Western Pacific, there are countries that are in a worse situation. In 2021, for the second year in a row, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world: 0.81 births per woman. This is the sixth consecutive decline.
Last year, Japan suffered its worst population drop since data became available: the country lost 628,205 inhabitants, which represents an annual decrease of 3.5%.
For their part, the Chinese are preparing for a boom spending on pensions and pensions. In a third of the provinces, the population over 60 years of age represents 20% of the total. According to the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China will experience an average annual population decline of 1.1% starting in 2021. At that rate, by 2100 the nation’s population will have shrunk to 587 million, less than half of the current population.
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