= »82430″> ; Date: Monday, June 05, 2006 Source: China Post Taiwan is expected to follow Japan shortly to see zero population growth. Japan’s population showed a negative growth for the first time in history last year. "We are afraid our population will stop growing in 10 to 15 years," a Council of Economic Planning and Development (CEPD) specialist said yesterday. Quoting Ministry of the Interior statistics, the CEPD official said, Taiwan’s birth rate dropped to an all-time 0.91 percent low last year. Only 65,400 babies were born in Taiwan in the first four months of this year. Given these statistics, Taiwan will have a zero population growth somewhere between 2016 and 2021. "Then," the CEPD expert said, "the population is going to shrink." At its height, Japan’s population is expected to total 128 million in 2006. It will go down to 100 million in 2050 and further down to 64 million by the end of this century. Whether Taiwan’s population will drop that fast is not predicted, however. The CEPD is making a new population study… According to the previous study, the zero population growth was expected in 2022. That rate has come down to 0.91 percent, the CEPD official
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