By Hollie Younger / Staff writer, with CNA Taiwan yesterday reported its 30th month of consecutive population decline, underscoring the demographic challenges facing the manufacturing hub at the center of the global artificial intelligence boom.The nation’s population stood at 23,243,565 at the end of last month, a decrease of more than 100,000 from June last year and more than 9,000 from May, the Ministry of the Interior said in a statement.The latest figures marked the longest stretch of consecutive declines in data going back to the end of World War II, surpassing the 29-month stretch during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg calculations showed. An infant’s foot is pictured in an undated photograph. Photo: CNA There were just 46,344 births recorded in the first half of the year, down fro