According to the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, the number of Taiwanese that left Taiwan in 1996 was 119,144, a substantial increase over the combined 1994-1995 total of 111,494.
根據行政院主計處的統計，當年遷往國外的人口高達 11 萬 9,144 人，比 1994 與 1995 兩年合計的移民外國的人數（11 萬 1,494 人）還多。