每5分鐘少一人！生育率0.695、連26月負成長：2065台灣只剩1200萬？

Taiwan recorded its richest year ever, yet also the year people least wanted to have children. The latest Ministry of the Interior data shows the total population has shrunk for 26 consecutive months. In February 2026 there were only 6,523 newborns, the first time a single month fell below 7,000. On average a baby is born every 6.2 minutes, while someone dies every 2.7 minutes. Over the past decade annual births plunged from 210,000 to just 107,812, forcing the National Development Council to activate its ultra-low fertility model: with the fertility rate falling below 0.695, Taiwan's population could drop below 12 million as early as 2065. This video gets to the heart of the collapse: plummeting marriage rates alongside high housing prices, low wages and long working hours, plus the structural exhaustion caused by inadequate childcare, workplace penalties and unequal gender divisions of labor. Why has South Korea rebounded for two straight years, with Seoul's births surging against the trend? How did they use relay-style care and a national happiness card to make young people feel supported? We propose five key solutions: strengthening the economic security of the young, transforming workplace culture and encouraging fathers to parent, building a seamless childcare network, easing marriage and childbirth systems, and upgrading immigration and talent policies. This is not abstract statistics; it is a question of survival for our own old age. Taiwan's golden decade starts now.