The impact of declining childization will reduce an average of 20,000 elementary school students in the next 16 academic year

Xinhua News Agency, Taipei, June 20 (Reporter Qi Xianghui Yue Xitong) Taiwan ’s education department recently announced a prediction report. It is estimated that the next 16 school year from 2022 to 2037. Primary school students will reduce an average of 20,000 people per year.

According to this 2022-2037 academic year, the number of students' number of students in various education stages, in the next 16 academic year, the average year-on-year students in Taiwan will be reduced by 4,300 or 2.4%. According to this trend, the Taiwan education authority is expected to fall below one million in the 2029 school year, and the 2037 school year will drop to 867,000, and the average elementary school students in the next 16 school year will decrease to 20,000 or 2.0%each year.

The competent department of Taiwan education predicts that by the 2037 school year, there are 867,000 elementary school students in Taiwan, 590,000 less than the 2011 school year; 446,000 people have left in junior high school students and less than 427,000; There are 10.45 million people and less than 307,000 people.

The department estimates that in the next 16 academic year, an average of 20,000 elementary school students, 8,800 junior high school students, 10,400 high school students, and 8,800 college students have been reduced.

Faced with the current status of the number of students decreased year by year, people in the Taiwan education community believe that the first impact is that the number of students in each school class is insufficient, and teachers may face excess. In addition, some schools may not be able to concentrate in urban and rural areas because they have fewer students and do not become a class.

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