Last December the Economist magazine of Britain did a survey of forty cities world wide. Taipei ranked 11th in rate of population growth from 1967-1987. In Asia, it was surpassed only by Kaohsiung, Sydney, and Perth. It far outpaced Jakarta, Tokyo, and Singapore.
去年十二月，英國經濟學人雜誌，針對全世界四十個城市所作的一份調查指出，從一九六七到一九八七年，台北的人口增加率在四十個城市中排名第十一；在亞洲國家中除我國高雄及澳洲的雪梨、柏斯，遠遠領先雅加達、新加坡、東京等地。