Of these, 23,000 are boys, with girls not far behind with 20.000. In any case, no matter what the reason for staying idle, the 517,000 persons who have neither advanced educationally nor gone to work account for 15 % of Taiwan's 3.3 million young people. In particular, the rapid increase in the last three years is really not something to be neglected.
話說回來，不管閒置的原因為何，未升學、未就業的五十一萬七千人，足足佔了台灣地區近三百卅萬青少年人口的百分之十五，尤其近三年更有快速升高的現象，實在不能等閒視之。