- ISO 3166
TW- Main language + region
zh-TW- Currency
- TWD · New Taiwan Dollar
- Region
- APAC · Greater China · CJK
Taiwan
Taiwan has 23.6M people. Traditional Chinese is the most widely spoken language at 95%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Traditional Chinese, Min Nan Chinese, and Hakka Chinese are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to zh-TW.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
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No World Bank internet estimate for this territory, so the online market cannot be sized here. CLDR puts the population at 23.6M.
Income per person
—
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
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No Findex survey covers this territory, so payment readiness is unknown.
Languages
3
Traditional Chinese 95% · Min Nan Chinese 57% · Hakka Chinese 11%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 3 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
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Not in the EF EPI 2025 table. Absent is not the same as low.
Adult literacy
96%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Taiwan
share of 23.6M people
- Traditional Chineseofficial95%22.4M
- Min Nan Chineseofficial57%13.4M
- Hakka Chineseofficial11%2.6M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Traditional Chinese in 20 territories and 1.3B speakers in total; Taiwan holds 2% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Traditional Chinese profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (zh-TW).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
CJK
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
2026年4月21日
Short: 2026/4/21
Time
下午6:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in TWD · New Taiwan Dollar
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script