According to statistics from the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics, Taiwan had 70,417 low-income households in 2002, representing a 60.8 % rise on the 43,780 registered ten years earlier. In ten years, low-income households rose from 0.8 % to 1 % of the total number of households.
根據行政院主計處的統計，民國九十一年全國低收入戶共七萬四百一十七戶，比十年前的四萬三千七百八十戶，增加幅度達 60.8％，佔全國戶數比從 0.8％提高到 1％。