A report on demographic trends, written by special commissioner Wang Ling of the manpower planning department at the Council for Economic Planning and Development, projects that the proportion of Taiwan's population who are of school and college age (6-21) will fall year by year, from 24 % today to under 15 % in 50 years 'time.
經建會人力規劃處專門委員王玲所做的人口推計報告指出，我國六至二十一歲的學齡人口比例將逐年遞減，由今年的百分之二十四，五十年後將遞減至不到百分之十五。