Volunteerism heats up According to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics 'Report on Taiwan Area Social Development Trends, in 1999 2.14 million people in Taiwan over age 15 contributed as volunteers, a participation rate of 13.31 %. By 2003 the rate had risen to 14.50 %. Those figures represent a huge increase over the 5.1 % in 1988 and 7.6 % in 1994.
志工加溫根據行政院主計處每四年調查一次的「台灣地區社會發展趨勢調查報告──社會參與」統計，民國八十八年台灣十五歲以上志工人數為二百一十四萬，參與率為 13.31％，九十二年參與率為 14.50％，較八十三年的 7.6％增加許多。