Salary Map 2》Life is worse than death, vote with your feet, Chiang City government lost 92,000 citizens

After Chiang Wanan took over as mayor of Taipei, in addition to a temporary increase of 31,205 people in 2023 due to the restoration of household registration after the epidemic, there was a decrease of 21,017 people in 2024, and a sharp decrease of 51,362 people in 2025, a total loss of more than 72,000 people, showing that the capital's population outflow has not stopped the bleeding. (File photo)

[Reporter Gao Jiahe/Taipei Report] Taiwan’s capital continues to lose population! According to statistics from the Ministry of the Interior, the Chiang City government benefited from the post-epidemic re-registration wave in the early days of taking office. However, in just two years, the total population dropped by 72,379 people in 2024 and 2025. Adding in the 20,653 decrease in the first nine months of 2026, the Chiang City government has lost 92,000 citizens. In addition to the natural decrease in the population that is "worse than death", it is also facing a social decrease in the population due to net migration of "voting with your feet".

In the eight years since Ke Wenzhe took office, the total population of Taipei City has decreased by 221,634 people, which is regarded as a major municipal warning. After Chiang Wanan took over, in addition to a brief increase of 31,205 people in 2023 due to the restoration of household registration after the epidemic, the total population in Taipei City has decreased by 221,634 people in 2024. There will be a decrease of 21,017 people in the year, and a sharp decrease of 51,362 people in 2025, a total loss of more than 72,000 people. In the first nine months of 2026, there will be a decrease of 20,653 people. This shows that the outflow of the capital's population has not stopped the bleeding, but has continued to accelerate the decrease.

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Natural increases and decreases reflect citizens’ fertility wishes and the nurturing environment. During Ko's administration, Taipei City's natural increase (number of births minus deaths) totaled a positive growth of 31,489 people. Although the number gradually declined and turned negative due to the impact of the general environment in the later period, a certain fertility level was still maintained in the early part of the term.

However, soon after Jiang Wanan came to power, the natural increase showed a serious deficit. There will be a natural decrease of 2,612 people in 2024, a decrease of 6,878 people in 2025, and an expanded decrease of 7,031 people in the first nine months of 2026, bringing the cumulative natural decrease to 16,125 people. This shows that the Chiang Kai-shek Government's "birth-promoting" policy has failed to play a substantial role. In addition, the proportion of the elderly population is the highest in Taiwan, and it has fallen into a "life is worse than death" dilemma.

In addition, during the city government's ban, the number of people in Taipei City (immigration minus emigration) reached 253,123, and the huge "defection wave" triggered a topic at the time. After Chiang Kai-shek took office, the housing dilemma remained unsolved. Excluding the abnormal value of post-epidemic re-registration in 2023, the number of people in the society will decrease by 18,405 in 2024. The emigration situation will be more severe in 2025, and the number of people in the society will decrease by 44,484. In the first nine months of 2026, the number of people in the society will continue to decrease by 13,604, and a total of 76,493 people have chosen to "vote with their feet" and left Taipei City.

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