Taiwan’s divorce rate has continued to rise over the past 10 years as more and more married couple have given up on their (36) to a life-long relationship. In its most recent demographic (人口学) and social survey, the island’s (37) found that the divorce rate in Taiwan has increased by an average of 6.4 per cent (38) over the last decade. A (39) of 4,379 couples in Taiwan ended their marriages in 1998. This increase of 4,830 over the previous years (40) Taiwan’s annual divorce rate 0.2 per cent, it the (41) among all the countries and (42) of Asia, officials said. Married couples between 30 and 34 were more likely to divorce than those in any other age group of married people. Among those (43) , 2.8 per cent of the men and 23.4 per cent of the women who divorced a husband/wife last year were from this age group. The survey found that (44) . Of the men who divorced last year, 31 per cent had only a junior high school education, and 34 per cent of the women who divorced had only a primary school level education. The survey also found that (45) . Among couples married for between 15 and 19 years, the divorce rate grew 10.97 per cent between 1997 and 1998, but it jumped by 14 per cent among those married for 20--24 years and by 13.8 per cent among those married for 25-29 years. Taiwan’s divorce rate, averaging 0. 2 per cent in 1998, (46)