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People -- 5/28/2010At a Glance ．Increasingly diverse ethnic makeup ．A multilingual land ．Rapidly aging society The Republic of China’s population was 23.069 million at the end of June 2009. Han Chinese made up the overwhelming majority of people—at over 95...... Demographic Trends -- 5/28/2010The first census in Taiwan, carried out in 1905, showed that there were 3.12 million people living on the island. Forty years later, the population had doubled to 6.62 million. Although a baby boom after World War II caused a rapid increase in population,...... Immigration and Emigration -- 5/28/2010Although Taiwan has a strict immigration policy, the number of foreign nationals (not including people from mainland China) living in Taiwan still jumped from around 30,000 to 417,385 between 1991 and 2008. This was mainly due to the arrival of blue-colla...... Languages -- 5/28/2010The written language intelligible to speakers of all Sinitic tongues is Chinese, the only pictograph-based writing system still in use on a large scale. While mainland China chose to adopt “simplified” characters in a bid to ameliorate widespread illitera...... |
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