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EconomyTaiwan
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Economy - overview:
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Taiwan has a dynamic capitalist economy with gradually decreasing government guidance of investment and foreign trade. In keeping with this trend, some large, state-owned banks and industrial firms have been privatized. Exports have provided the primary impetus for industrialization. The island runs a large trade surplus, and its foreign reserves are among the world's largest. Recently opened cross-strait travel, transportation, and tourism links are likely to increase Taiwan and China's economic interdependence. China has overtaken the US to become Taiwan's largest export market and its second-largest source of imports, after Japan. China is also the island's number one destination for foreign direct investment. Growth fell below 2% in 2008 because of the global slowdown.

GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$738.8 billion (2008 est.)
$725 billion (2007)
$673.1 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$31,900 (2008 est.)
$31,100 (2007 est.)
$29,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars

GDP (official exchange rate):
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$401.6 billion (2008 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
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1.9% (2008 est.)
5.7% (2007 est.)
4.8% (2006 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 1.5%
industry: 27.8%
services: 70.7% (2008 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
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20.9% of GDP (2008 est.)

Population below poverty line:
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0.95% (2007 est.)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 6.7%
highest 10%: 41.1% (2002 est.)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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void

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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3.7% (2008 est.)

Central bank discount rate:
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1.5% (January 2009)

Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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4.06% (2008 est.)

Stock of money:
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$225.3 billion (November 2008)

Stock of money - per capita:
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9,807 USD per capita

Stock of quasi money:
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$618 billion (November 2008)

Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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26,900 USD per capita

Stock of domestic credit:
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$677.8 billion (November 2008)

Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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29,503 USD per capita

Labor force:
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10.85 million (2008 est.)

Labor force participation rate:
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47.23 % of population

Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 5.1%
industry: 36.8%
services: 58% (2008 est.)

Unemployment rate:
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4.1% (2008 est.)

Budget:
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revenues: $50.91 billion
expenditures: $54.7 billion (2008 est.)

Budget revenues per capita:
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2,216 USD per capita

Public debt:
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30.9% of GDP (2008 est.)

Industries:
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electronics, petroleum refining, armaments, chemicals, textiles, iron and steel, machinery, cement, food processing, vehicles, consumer products, pharmaceuticals

Industrial production growth rate:
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-2% (2008 est.)

Electricity - production:
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225.3 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - production per capita:
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9,807 kWh per capita

Electricity - consumption:
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233 billion kWh (2008 est.)

Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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10,142 kWh per capita

Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2008)

Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2008 est.)

Oil - production:
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1,306 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - production per capita:
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57 bbl/day per capita

Oil - consumption:
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935,600 bbl/day (2007 est.)

Oil - consumption - per capita:
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14.86 bbl/year per capita

Oil - exports:
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340,200 bbl/day (2007)

Oil - imports:
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660,400 bbl/day (2007)

Oil - proved reserves:
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1.88 million bbl (2008 est.)

Natural gas - production:
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416 million cu m (2007)

Natural gas - production per capita:
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19 cu m per capita

Natural gas - consumption:
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13.6 billion cu m (2007)

Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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592 cu m per capita

Natural gas - exports:
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0 cu m (2008 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
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10.9 billion cu m (2007)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
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6.229 billion cu m (1 January 2008)

Agriculture - products:
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rice, corn, vegetables, fruit, tea; pigs, poultry, beef, milk; fish

Current account balance:
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$25 billion (2008 est.)

Current account balance - per capita:
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1 USD per capita

Exports:
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$255.7 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Exports per capita:
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11,130 USD per capita

Exports - commodities:
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electronics, flat panels, machinery, metals, textiles, plastics, chemicals, auto parts (2008)

Exports - partners:
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China 32.6%, US 12.9%, Hong Kong 8.6%, Japan 6.4%, Singapore 5% (2007)

Imports:
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$236 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.)

Imports per capita:
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10,273 USD per capita

Imports - commodities:
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electronics, machinery, petroleum, precision instruments, organic chemicals, metals (2008)

Imports - partners:
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Japan 22.7%, US 13.3%, China 11.2%, South Korea 6.6%, Saudi Arabia 4.8%, Singapore 4.6% (2007)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$296.4 billion (31 December 2008)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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12,902 USD per capita

Debt - external:
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$109.6 billion (31 December 2008)

Debt - external - per capita:
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4,771 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$102.3 billion (2008)

Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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4,453 USD per capita

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$135.3 billion (2008)

Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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5,890 USD per capita

Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$654 billion (28 December 2007)

Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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28,467 USD per capita

Economic aid - donor:
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void

Economic aid - recipient:
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void

Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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void

Currency (code):
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new Taiwan dollar (TWD)

Exchange rates:
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New Taiwan dollars (TWD) per US dollar - 31.53 (2008 est.), 32.84 (2007), 32.534 (2006), 31.71 (2005), 34.418 (2004)

Fiscal year:
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calendar year
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