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A lack of incentives for younger people to marry as well as high costs for housing, elderly care and child-rearing are the main causes for Taiwan’s declining birthrate, Academia Sinica associate researcher Cheng Yen-hsin (鄭雁馨) said on Friday.
Cheng made the remarks in reaction to the Ministry of the Interior earlier in the day publishing data on childbirths in the nation.
Last year, 165,249 babies were born, a new low in more than a decade, the data showed.
Cheng said that in 2019, the average marrying age in Taiwan was 32.6 for men and 30.4 for women, and has since likely increased.
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