According to Taiwan's "Business Times" on February 19, in the flow of years, Taiwan's social age has increased from 19 years old in 1970 to 45 years old at present, and it is aging very quickly.
According to the report, when the age of society rises year by year, the number of older people in various industries will naturally increase simultaneously. Recently, it is often heard that some industries cannot find young people, so they can only rely on the support of teachers, and the proportion of middle-aged and elderly workers in this industry is getting higher and higher.
Taking Japan as an example, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, more than a quarter of employees in Japan will be over 55 years old in 2022, and the construction and textile industries will be the most seriously aging, with the proportion reaching 30%. Theoretically, the accommodation and restaurant industry is relatively young, but with the aging of Japanese society, this proportion has reached 20%. Aging is not only a social phenomenon, but also a common phenomenon in various industries.
According to the report, looking at the age structure of employees employed in Taiwan from 2006 to 2022, there are fewer and fewer young people as the declining birthrate generation enters the workforce. In 2006, only 5 percent of all employees in Taiwan were over the age of 553%, which has now doubled to 128%。
The report also said that, like Japan, Taiwan's textile industry and construction industry have a higher degree of aging, and the proportion of employees over 55 years old in these two industries will reach 20% in 2022, compared with less than 10% in 2006. In fact, not only the construction and textile industries, but also the accommodation and catering industries, retail trades and electronic components industries, which attract more young people to work, have doubled in the past 17 years. This shows that with the aging of society, the aging of various industries cannot escape.
According to the report, the proportion of Japan's elderly population (over 65 years old) has reached 29% in 2023, and Taiwan's situation is also more than 18%, and Japan's situation today will be the situation in Taiwan in the near future. There are still a number of industries in Taiwan with a relatively young ageing population, such as the electronic components industry, where the proportion of employees over the age of 55 is only 46%, retail only 67%。However, in 2022, the proportion of employees over the age of 55 in these two industries has reached7%, which means that it won't be long before the situation in Taiwan will be the same as in Japan.
According to estimates, Taiwan's elderly population will account for about 29% in 2037, and if the situation remains unchanged, Taiwan's aging situation will be the same as that of Japan today in another 14 years. However, perhaps this day will come soon, because Taiwan has had less than 140,000 births for two consecutive years, and the aging of society will soon turn into an aging industry. [*Refer to the news network].