A distressing number of people who want to get married aren't having any luck. According to statistics released by the Ministry of the Interior's Population Administration, there were 2,800,736 single persons aged 25 or above in Taiwan in 2000.
內政部戶政司八十九年的統計數字顯示，國內年滿二十五歲以上的未婚人口有兩百八十萬零七百三十六人之多。