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Household Registration Affairs

II. Household Registration

The ROC household registration program is designed to collect and supply demographic
information and also to officially recognize personal status. Registrations required by the Household
Registration Act are as follows:

1. Personal Identification Registration: This includes delineation of births, deaths, declarations of

death, registration of parentage, adoptions, termination of adoptions, marriages, divorces, the
exercising and responsibility of the rights and obligations over minor children, legal guardianship,
assistance, and indigenous status and tribal group.
2. Initial Household Registrations.

3. Migratory Registration: This category includes registration of immigration, emigration, and
changes in address.
4. Household Separation/Combination Registration.
5. Birth Place Registration.

6. Registration according to other laws.

Statistics on population registrations for 2017 are listed in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 Population Registrations

2017 Unit: Persons; Couples
Item of Registration Total Male Female
Population at the End of Year 23 571 227 11 719 580 11 851 647

Immigration 948 049 431 110 516 939
Emigration 939 240 729 722 509 518
Birth 193 844 100 477 93 367

Death 171 242 101 555 69 687
Registration of Parentage 4 007 2 074 1 933
Adoption 1 922 948 974

Termination of Adoption 1 071 539 532
Marriage (Couples) 138 034 - -

Divorce (Couples) 54 412 - -
* Immigration includes moving-in from a foreign country, moving-in from other jurisdictional domiciliary areas (township, city, district),
Initial Household Registration, etc.
** Emigration includes moving-out to a foreign country, moving-out of the jurisdictional area (township, city, district), Annulment Registration, etc.
*** This table is counted by registration date.

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