According to reports, Taiwan's birthrate continues to dwindle down; it is now the second lowest in the world after Germany.

In the year 2009, the birthrate in the country declined to an average of 1.03 births per woman.

However, the Ministry of the Interior has announced that the rate was 3.09 births per women in 1976.

Meanwhile, the ministry has said that the country’s low birthrate was due to fewer marriages, people getting married later and the growing use of birth control.

As per the official data revealed by the ministry, the average age for men to get married in 2009 was 33.9 years, as compared to 27.9 years in 1976.

However, in the case of women, it showed that the average age was 30.3 years, compared with 23.8 in 1976.

On the other hand, the vice interior minister Chien Tai-lang has requested the couples that they should not need to believe in the superstition that children born in the Year of the Tiger are wild.

In addition, 2010 is said to be the Year of the Tiger, which has increased the worries that the birth rate will fall even lower. Taiwanese parents often avoid giving birth during the tiger year, since the tiger is seen as one of the fiercest signs of the Chinese zodiac.