[Global Times reporter Yu Ming] A population warning appeared in Taiwan.

Taiwan’s "Ministry of the Interior" released the latest demographic statistics on the 10th, showing that the number of newborns in the first 10 months of this year was 133,000 and the death toll was 144,000. The number of deaths exceeded the number of births by more than 10,000, and the natural population growth rate was negative 1,000. 0.55 per cent.

　　Taiwan Economic Daily reported on the 10th that according to the latest statistics, the number of births in October was 14,000 and the number of deaths was 13,500. This is the second month of this year in which there are more births than deaths after June.

The number of births in October last year reached 16,000, a full 2,000 more than the same month this year. This shows that there have been population warning signs.

Professor Xue Chengtai of the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University asserted that the number of newborns this year will be less than 170,000, and may even hit a record low, reaching 165,000.

The last time the number of births in Taiwan was low was in 2010. It was the Year of the Tiger. Coupled with the impact of the financial crisis, young people on the island were afraid and unwilling to give birth due to the dual impact of folklore and economic factors, resulting in the number of births that year. Only 167,000 people.

　　Xue Chengtai also analyzed that the newborns born in the first 10 months of this year were pregnant between March and December last year. There was no new crown pneumonia epidemic at that time, and it was also the time when the global economy was just right. As a result, the number of births in the first 10 months was only 13.3. Ten thousand people, "showing that the sharp drop in the number of births has surpassed economic factors and has become a national security issue, and this is what is really worth worrying about."

　　The "World Population Review" fertility rate ranking report this year shows that Taiwan is the last of the 200 countries and regions, with an average of only 1.218 children per woman.

Although the Taiwan authorities have increased subsidies, most young people are still unwilling to give birth.