Now, some 20 years later, Taiwan hasn't merely avoided a population explosion. Rather, concern has swung in the opposite direction toward an excessively low number of births, sparking fears of an insufficiently large labor force that causes economic contraction, and even talk of "national extinction."
二十幾年後的今天，台灣人口不但沒「爆炸」，反而逆轉為生育過少，並衍生出未來勞動力不足、經濟衰退，甚至「亡國滅種」的恐懼。