Taiwan
Republic of China (Taiwan)
- Region
- Asia · Eastern Asia
- Capital
- Taipei
- Population
- 23,600,776 (2025)
- Government
- semi-presidential republic
- Currency
- New Taiwan dollar (TWD)
- Official languages
- Chinese
- Spoken languages
- Mandarin (official), Min Nan, Hakka dialects, approximately 16 indigenous languages
- Written scripts
- Chinese characters
- Area
- 36,193 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- No
- Affiliations
- APEC (Chinese Taipei), WTO (Chinese Taipei)
Political stability
82 / 100
Economic stability
78 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- integrated circuits, machine parts, broadcasting equipment, computers, plastics (2023)
- Key imports
- integrated circuits, crude petroleum, machinery, natural gas, coal (2023)
- Natural resources
- small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, asbestos, arable land
- Primary route
- Transpacific services to North America
- Secondary route
- Asia–Europe services via the Suez Canal
The xin.bz view
- Taiwan’s most important inventory is water: reservoirs serving Hsinchu and the southern science parks entered the cycle near full, buffering semiconductor production into the dry season.
- With electronics near four-fifths of exports, Taiwan carries the region’s highest value-per-day disruption risk — Kaohsiung operations, air cargo, and power continuity matter as much as the fabs.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño: What the Media Has Wrong — and What It Means for Global Trade
The 2026–27 El Niño is on track to be one of the strongest on record. A quarter-by-quarter outlook of where supply falls, where it rises, and which trade corridors cannot adjust fast enough.
El Niño Is Raising the Cost of Keeping Northeast Asia's Factories Running
Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan convert imported energy, grain, and materials into the world's chips, cars, and ships — El Niño raises the cost of keeping that system supplied and moving.
El Niño Hits China Differently: Beijing Can Move the Shock
China enters El Niño with grain reserves, oil inventories, huge ports, Belt and Road routes, and rare-earth leverage — its purchasing and inventory decisions decide where global disruption lands next.
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
El Niño Is Increasing the World's Need for Eurasia — Geopolitics Will Decide What Gets Through
Russia's ~60M t exportable grain, Kazakh wheat and uranium, Belarusian potash, Turkmen gas, and the Middle Corridor — El Niño raises the world's need for Eurasia while geopolitics decides what gets through.
El Niño Is Raising the Middle East's Food and Water Needs — While War Is Rewriting How Supply Gets In and Energy Gets Out
Gulf desalination and grain buying, Egypt's Nile and Suez loops, Hormuz fertilizer constraints, and $280B+ in reconstruction demand — the Middle East sits on both sides of the El Niño shock.
El Niño Is Redrawing the Pacific's Water and Fishery Map — Just as Oceania Becomes More Valuable to Global Food, Energy and Critical-Mineral Supply
Australia's 28M t wheat crop and El Niño fire signature, Pacific islands splitting into dry west and wet center, tuna revenue moving between EEZs, New Zealand's west–east water divide, and Australian LNG and rare earths gaining strategic value.
The Fuel Dock Becomes the Next Shipping Chokepoint
Large-vessel bunker constraints are moving from refinery systems into global freight economics — a 218,000 b/d fuel-oil deficit, 12–15-day Singapore lead times, and the routes, industries and carriers that pay first.
Future Insight ·
Rearming the World Is Becoming a Race for Explosives, Factories, Critical Minerals, and Trusted Supply Chains
Future Insights deep dive — the 2026–2032 global rearmament cycle: a ~2.6 million tonne military replacement obligation, and the industrial race in explosives, propellant, rare-earth magnets, and trusted supply chains.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.