The impacts of, reduced, birthrate, and it’s relation to how it, affected the makeup, of the population structure, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
In the birthrate estimates in 2019 for two hundred countries in the world, Taiwan was the last, on average, each woman only had 1.218 children. The neighboring countries of South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are 1.323, 1.478, and 1.26 respectively.
Surely, the statistics of Internal Affairs showed, that the newborns of 2020 in Taiwan were 165,249, the deaths were 173,156, and this is the very first time, that the deathrate exceeded the birthrates, and, naturally, the population growth reached its very first, “death intersection”. Comparing to the rate of birth in Taiwan back in 1959, at its highest of 428,000, back in 2002, the number dropped to below 250,000 and this opened the reduction of births of the modern day era, in no more than two decades, this reduction of birthrate became, a, national, crisis.
The reduced birthrates impacted the structure of population makeup the most. The elderly who are enjoying the benefits of retirement increased, and, there’s NOT enough of the younger generations, working, to pay the taxes, and, the treasury of the government will soon run short on the funding, and the younger generations will feel the pressures of the society now.
“Reimbursing the families who are having children” became the magical cure for the counties and cities all around, the assistance money for first births, second births, and even third births, are being, increased, but, does it work? A couple of tens of thousands of dollars, still not quite enough, to encourage the younger generations to have more children, to pretend that they don’t see the problems of childrearing that comes after giving birth, and, this “specialty cure” doesn’t even have any temporarily effect anymore.
There had been an online survey that showed the results of how sixty-six percent of the laborers worried they may not have enough money to raise children; forty-two-percent feared that they can’t buy the houses and couldn’t give their children a proper home; there were also, twenty-three percent surveyed, who’d, felt disgruntled of the system of education here in Taiwan. The working class believed, from birth to age twenty, each child would cost up to $5.8 million N.T.’s! The manual laborers believed, that the total family income has to get up to over $102,000N.T.s, in order for them to have and raise a child up into adulthood
The Japanese sociologist, Takanori Fujita mentioned the term, “Elderly on the Bottom of the Socioeconomic Status”! Now, there are six to seven million elderly in Japan who are not, making it, there were those elderly who were, forced to, stealing things, to get sent into prison, to continue to survive, to get the most basic of their, medical needs fulfilled, and the interpersonal relations they are in need of. What’s worth mentioning, was that a lot of these “elderly at the bottom of the socioeconomic status” were all once high wage earners when they were younger, members of the middle class. And, if the Japanese government does NOT come up with a working plan, then in the future, there would be the conditions of the “crumbling of the billion population after they reach retirement age”, and currently, there’s only, a little over 120,000,000 total population in Japan.
How would the government help shift the structure of the industries, to reduce the costs of labor, how to give the most basic needs that the elderly population would need to get by, this is, a test of the government’s wisdom, and the policies, and how well the policies can, work.
And the cause of this big problem, of how more than HALF of us are going to, live in poverty AFTER the retirement age of sixty-five is still due to the reduction of birthrate, I mean, maybe, you don’t feel it, but, people in the Asian parts of the world, WE do. Just look at how dangerous this world is, the plague, natural disasters, illnesses, Alzheimer’s/dementia, etc., etc., etc., etc.,, and the world is just too dangerous, for us to raise up our own young in and so, a lot of us (yes, I am, one of “them” too!), are NOT having our babies, and besides, we’re, marrying later, later, and later by the generations, for whatever reasons there may be, and, we become the age of our grandparents, when we’re only, starting to, raise our own young, and this is still, a VICIOUS cycle that we can’t see a way out of, because this is just NOT a good enough, a safe enough world, to RAISE our own young in, and, even IF the government is offering, free education until post-bachelors, and free daycare, kindergarten, preschool programs, or even RE-imbursements to the parents here to have more babies, how can we, the REPRODUCTIVE generation, feel safe and secure enough, to have our own young, knowing how this world is, getting WORSE and WORSE, and WORSE?
Life, the Obstacle Course 