| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $528.6 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
3.2% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $23,400 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 1.8%
industry: 30.3%
services: 67.9% (2003) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
1% (2000 est.) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 6.7%
highest 10%: 41.1% (2002 est.) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
-0.3% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
10.08 million (2003) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 7.5%, industry 35%, services 57% (2001 est.) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $56.58 billion
expenditures: $69.21 billion, including capital expenditures of $14.4 billion (2003 est.) |
| Industries : |
electronics, petroleum refining, chemicals, textiles, iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
8.4% (2003) |
| Electricity - Production : |
151.1 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 71.4%
hydro: 6%
nuclear: 22.6%
other: 0% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
140.5 billion kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk, fish |
| Exports : |
$143 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
computer products and electrical equipment, metals, textiles, plastics and rubber products, chemicals (2002) |
| Exports - Partners : |
China 25.3%, US 20.5%, Japan 9.2% (2002 est.) |
| Imports : |
$119.6 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
machinery and electrical equipment 44.5%, minerals, precision instruments (2002) |
| Imports - Partners : |
Japan 24.2%, US 16.1%, China 7.1%, South Korea 6.9% (2002 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$53.44 billion (2003) |
| Currency : |
new Taiwan dollar (TWD) |
| Currency Code : |
TWD |
| Exchange Rates : |
new Taiwan dollars per US dollar - 34.418 (2003), 34.575 (2002), 33.8 (2001), 33.09 (2000), 31.6 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
1 July - 30 June (up to FY98/99); 1 July 1999 - 31 December 2000 for FY00; calendar year (after FY00) |
