Along with these trends, there is concern about the growing proportion of births to older mothers. Last year 26,389 of Taiwan's births were to women over the age of 34, leaping to 13 % of total births from only 8 % the year before.
新生兒變少，更令人憂心的是，新生寶寶由「高齡產婦」產出的比例卻在持續增加中，去年就有 2 萬 6,389 名新生兒是由 34 歲以上的高齡產婦產出，比率已由前年的 8 % 飆升至 13 %。