台灣生育率(中英雙語新聞)

 台灣生育率跌破1％大關，教育部統計處指出，高雄市國小閒置教室數量3352間，為全台最多；另外，五都共3萬3708間閒置教室，占全台閒置教室數量六成以上，顛覆閒置教室大都位在偏遠鄉鎮的看法。閒置教室增加，也代表各國小校園不斷「減人、減班」。其中，基隆市國小每班減少16.27人，是全台班級人數減少最多者。

The birth rate in Taiwan has broken one percent. The department of statistics, the Ministry of Education indicates that the number of classrooms unused in elementary schools of Kaohsiung City reaches three thousand three hundred and fifty-two which is the most one in Taiwan. Additionally, thirty-three thousand seven hundred and eight classrooms are vacant in the five capitals which takes sixty or more percent of the whole classrooms unused in Taiwan. The condition greatly changes people’s impression which most vacant classrooms locate in big cities. The increasing number of vacant classrooms also means the decreasing number of enrollment and class. Take the elementary schools of Keelung City for example, sixteen point twenty-seven students are decreased in each class which makes it a city with the most decreasing number of students in Taiwan.

台灣少子化情況空前嚴重，根據內政部戶政司的統計，台灣去年總生育率再創歷年新低點，跌破「一」字大關，從前年的一.○三驟降至○.八九五，平均每對夫妻一輩子生育不到一名子女。前年台灣還以○.○一的差距險勝德國，險居全球倒數第二，但去年跌破○.九大關，已經成為全球生育率最低的國家！根據內政部統計，去年新生兒總數較前年減少兩萬四千四百廿四人，僅十六萬六千八百八十六人，總生育率更從前年的一.○三驟降至去年的○.八九五；等於平均每位婦女一生僅生○.八九五個小孩。

    　經建會去年九月提出的台灣人口推計報告，原本推測在最壞的狀況，去年總生育率還能維持在○.九二的水準，要到二○二○年才會跌破○.九的關卡；但最新統計卻顯示國人生育意願遠比經建會「低推計」還要低得許多，去年一年生育率的跌幅，就達到經建會原本預設十年的水準。

    　根據該推估報告，台灣人口會在二○一九年、生育率降至○.九時出現總人口負成長；去年雖然台灣總人口仍有成長，但生育率已降至更低的水準，人口結構已經出現