In just ten years the number of universities and colleges in Taiwan has increased from 50 to 154, and they have enrolled something over 1.2 million students. But the number of children born in Taiwan each year has fallen from over 410,000 in the 1980s to only something over 250,000 in 2001.
短短十年之間，台灣的大學院校從五十所暴增到一百五十四所，共招收了一百二十餘萬名學生，相對地，我國人口出生數則從民國七十年代的每年四十一萬多人，降到九十一年的二十五萬餘人。