The birth rate in Taiwan in 1975 was 22.98 births per thousand of the population. The following year (a dragon year) the figure leapt to 25.93 per thousand, and then dropped again to 23.76 in 1977.
像台灣地區人口出生率為千分之廿二．九八，六十五年（龍年）躍升為千分之廿五．九三，六十六年再跌回廿三．七六。