The current population of Taiwan is 23,308,308 people, as of 2025 based on the adjusted UN estimation. The latest officially reported number was 23,410,331 in 2024.
Population facts:
- Since 2005, population has increased from 22.7M people to 23.3M (2.55% growth in 20 years).
- The UN estimates that Taiwan's population is going to decline by -15.9% to 19.6M people by 2050.
- For the last 20 years, Taiwan has had an average growth rate of 0.13% per year.
- Taiwan accounts for 0.28% of the world's population.
- Taiwan's population peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and has been in decline since.
- Taiwan is ranked 60/197 by population and was ranked 48th in 2005.
Taiwan population clock
Taiwan
|
World
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Current population |
23308308
|
8266870341
|
| Population rank | 60/197 | N/A |
| Percent of world population | 0.28% | N/A |
| One net population change |
7.75 minutes
|
0.41 seconds
|
| One birth every |
3.9 minutes
|
0.24 seconds
|
| One death every |
2.6 minutes
|
0.52 seconds
|
| Daily growth/decline | +186 | +211,178 |
| Annual growth/decline | +67,790 | +77,079,845 |
| Annual growth/decline rate | +0.29% | +0.96% |
| Population growth rate rank | 150/197 | N/A |
| One migration net change every |
11.2 minutes
|
N/A |
| Annual migration change | +47,029 | N/A |
Taiwan population history and growth rate by year chart
| Year | Population | Growth rate |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 11,030,385 | - |
| 1962 | 11,392,513 | 3.28% |
| 1963 | 11,762,101 | 3.24% |
| 1964 | 12,137,143 | 3.19% |
| 1965 | 12,511,863 | 3.09% |
| 1966 | 12,874,153 | 2.9% |
| 1967 | 13,210,344 | 2.61% |
| 1968 | 13,548,537 | 2.56% |
| 1969 | 14,068,984 | 3.84% |
| 1970 | 14,582,944 | 3.65% |
| 1971 | 14,913,564 | 2.27% |
| 1972 | 15,220,495 | 2.06% |
| 1973 | 15,505,121 | 1.87% |
| 1974 | 15,784,817 | 1.8% |
| 1975 | 16,075,128 | 1.84% |
| 1976 | 16,401,413 | 2.03% |
| 1977 | 16,730,895 | 2.01% |
| 1978 | 17,042,272 | 1.86% |
| 1979 | 17,372,779 | 1.94% |
| 1980 | 17,704,538 | 1.91% |
| 1981 | 18,029,982 | 1.84% |
| 1982 | 18,354,855 | 1.8% |
| 1983 | 18,653,146 | 1.63% |
| 1984 | 18,929,866 | 1.48% |
| 1985 | 19,191,510 | 1.38% |
| 1986 | 19,411,454 | 1.15% |
| 1987 | 19,617,046 | 1.06% |
| 1988 | 19,839,704 | 1.14% |
| 1989 | 20,055,492 | 1.09% |
| 1990 | 20,278,946 | 1.11% |
| 1991 | 20,503,568 | 1.11% |
| 1992 | 20,704,227 | 0.98% |
| 1993 | 20,899,019 | 0.94% |
| 1994 | 21,086,645 | 0.9% |
| 1995 | 21,267,653 | 0.86% |
| 1996 | 21,441,432 | 0.82% |
| 1997 | 21,634,124 | 0.9% |
| 1998 | 21,835,703 | 0.93% |
| 1999 | 22,010,489 | 0.8% |
| 2000 | 22,184,530 | 0.79% |
| 2001 | 22,341,120 | 0.71% |
| 2002 | 22,463,172 | 0.55% |
| 2003 | 22,562,663 | 0.44% |
| 2004 | 22,646,836 | 0.37% |
| 2005 | 22,729,753 | 0.37% |
| 2006 | 22,823,455 | 0.41% |
| 2007 | 22,917,444 | 0.41% |
| 2008 | 22,997,696 | 0.35% |
| 2009 | 23,078,402 | 0.35% |
| 2010 | 23,140,948 | 0.27% |
| 2011 | 23,193,518 | 0.23% |
| 2012 | 23,270,367 | 0.33% |
| 2013 | 23,344,670 | 0.32% |
| 2014 | 23,403,635 | 0.25% |
| 2015 | 23,462,914 | 0.25% |
| 2016 | 23,515,945 | 0.23% |
| 2017 | 23,555,522 | 0.17% |
| 2018 | 23,580,080 | 0.1% |
| 2019 | 23,596,027 | 0.07% |
| 2020 | 23,582,179 | -0.06% |
| 2021 | 23,468,275 | -0.48% |
| 2022 | 23,319,977 | -0.63% |
| 2023 | 23,342,541 | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 23,410,331 | 0.29% |
| 2025 | 23,308,308 | -0.44% |
| 2026 | 23,205,944 | -0.44% |
| 2027 | 23,102,120 | -0.45% |
| 2028 | 22,996,693 | -0.46% |
| 2029 | 22,890,335 | -0.46% |
| 2030 | 22,781,040 | -0.48% |
| 2031 | 22,667,327 | -0.5% |
| 2032 | 22,549,689 | -0.52% |
| 2033 | 22,428,721 | -0.54% |
| 2034 | 22,302,402 | -0.56% |
| 2035 | 22,170,689 | -0.59% |
| 2036 | 22,034,775 | -0.61% |
| 2037 | 21,893,029 | -0.64% |
| 2038 | 21,746,001 | -0.67% |
| 2039 | 21,594,236 | -0.7% |
| 2040 | 21,436,947 | -0.73% |
| 2041 | 21,274,187 | -0.76% |
| 2042 | 21,105,682 | -0.79% |
| 2043 | 20,932,105 | -0.82% |
| 2044 | 20,754,623 | -0.85% |
| 2045 | 20,571,741 | -0.88% |
| 2046 | 20,384,903 | -0.91% |
| 2047 | 20,194,425 | -0.93% |
| 2048 | 19,999,753 | -0.96% |
| 2049 | 19,801,293 | -0.99% |
| 2050 | 19,598,997 | -1.02% |
Taiwan has a population of 23.3M as of 2025, compared to 23.5M in 2015, 22.7M in 2005, and 21.3M in 1995.
Over the past 10 years, the population has had a trend to decrease by an average of 0.07% per year. Taiwan is ranked 166th out of 197 countries by a 10-year average growth rate.
The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 20 years (in 2045) Taiwan will have 20,571,741 people (-11.7% decline) with a rank change from 60th to 75th.
By the year 2100, Taiwan's population is projected to decline by 56.7% to 10.1M people.
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Taiwan population statistics
|
Taiwan
|
World
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Life expectancy | 80.9 years | 73.5 years |
| Average age | 44.1 years | 33.8 years |
| Median age | 45.1 years | 31.6 years |
| Male:Female ratio | 49.3:50.7 | 50.3:49.7 |
| Fertility rate | 0.89 births per woman | 2.2 births per woman |
| Population density | 1,675 ppl/mi² | 141.6 ppl/mi² |
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