Taiwan is relatively youthful: There are presently approximately 8.3 working people supporting each senior. However, if birth rates continue to slack off, in 20 years the ratio will shrink to 3.6 to 1, the burden of which could arouse resentment amongst the young and inflame intergenerational bitterness.
而台灣目前雖仍以青壯人口居多，平均每 8.3 名年輕人養一個老人），但若出生率不能提高，20 年後將成為每 3.6 名年輕人養一名老人，沈重的壓力終將使得年輕人憤恨不平，世代衝突一觸即發。