By 1945, the literacy rate in Taiwan had reached somewhere between 70 % and 80 %, meaning that when the ROC government got here, there was already a large pool of primary and mid-level industrial labor. This would prove to be very important in postwar economic construction.
日治後期民眾的識字率已達七、八成，使得光復初期台灣已有充裕的初、中級勞工，對戰後經濟建設助益頗大。