Now let's take a look at the experience of other nations (Graph 2). In addition to Korea, which is sociologically and developmentally on a par with Taiwan, nations in Europe and the Americas also experienced sharp birth declines in and around the 1970s. But in the 1990s the fertility rates in those nations began to bottom out or even to turn up slightly.
再從其他國家的經驗來看（圖二），除了與台灣社會發展情況相近的韓國之外，許多歐美國家皆在 1970 年代前後出現總生育率的明顯下降，但 1990 年代以後則趨於穩定甚至小幅回升。