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Dentists in clinics: Taiwan, 2025
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Taiwan had 14,754 dentists working in clinics in 2025, according to MOHW Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114. Basis: practising (clinic-based only).
Comparability B Confidence high
Cite this
Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Taiwan. (2026). Dentists in clinics: Taiwan, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dentists-in-clinics/2025/
Permanent URL: https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dentists-in-clinics/2025/. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Record
- Value
- 14,754 persons
- Scope qualifier
- clinic-based only
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 2
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- derived
- Basis
- practising
- Scope
- practising: clinic-based only
- Comparability
- Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric; 1 earlier revision is kept below
Source quote
鄉鎮市區碼,診所家數,醫事人員總計,西醫師,中醫師,牙醫師,藥師,藥劑生,醫事檢驗師,醫事檢驗生,醫事放射師,醫事放射士,護理師,護士,助產師,助產士,營養師,物理治療師,物理治療生,職能治療師,職能治療生,臨床心理師,諮商心理師,呼吸治療師,語言治療師,聽力師,牙體技術師,牙體技術生,驗光師,驗光生 101,331,1338,278,73,249,70,10,13,0,10,0,402,98,0,0,12,47,5,12,0,11,22,0,8,0,0,0,14,4
English: Columns: township code, number of clinics, total medical personnel, physicians, TCM practitioners, dentists (牙醫師), pharmacists, ... dental technicians (牙體技術師), dental technician trainees (牙體技術生), optometrists, optometry trainees. First data row shown (township 101).
Locator: clinic_personnel_114.csv, column 牙醫師, sum over 366 rows
Local definition
Dentists (牙醫師) practising in clinics (診所), counted by township
Source
Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Taiwan: Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025). Registry entry: mohw-tw-clinic-personnel-114.
Notes
Revision 2 (2026-11-09, steward fix): Scope qualified: clinic-based dentists only; hospital dentists are excluded. Sum of 牙醫師 across 366 township rows, ROC-year-114 clinic personnel dataset (24,086 clinics of all types). Clinic-based only; excludes hospital dentists. Reference date within ROC 114 assumed year-end; file does not state it. Sum re-run 2026-11-09 from the downloaded CSV: 14,754 (matches).
Metric definition
Dentists working in clinics only (excludes hospital dentists) All markets for this metric.
Revisions
Earlier revisions of this figure stay on record for citation. They are never deleted.
Revision 1 (superseded)
- Value
- 14,754 persons
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- derived
- Basis
- practising
- Scope
- practising
- Comparability
- Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
鄉鎮市區碼,診所家數,醫事人員總計,西醫師,中醫師,牙醫師,藥師,藥劑生,醫事檢驗師,醫事檢驗生,醫事放射師,醫事放射士,護理師,護士,助產師,助產士,營養師,物理治療師,物理治療生,職能治療師,職能治療生,臨床心理師,諮商心理師,呼吸治療師,語言治療師,聽力師,牙體技術師,牙體技術生,驗光師,驗光生 101,331,1338,278,73,249,70,10,13,0,10,0,402,98,0,0,12,47,5,12,0,11,22,0,8,0,0,0,14,4
English: Columns: township code, number of clinics, total medical personnel, physicians, TCM practitioners, dentists (牙醫師), pharmacists, ... dental technicians (牙體技術師), dental technician trainees (牙體技術生), optometrists, optometry trainees. First data row shown (township 101).
Locator: clinic_personnel_114.csv, column 牙醫師, sum over 366 rows
Source: Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025). Registry entry: mohw-tw-clinic-personnel-114.
Local definition: Dentists (牙醫師) practising in clinics (診所), counted by township
Notes: Sum of 牙醫師 across 366 township rows, ROC-year-114 clinic personnel dataset (24,086 clinics of all types). Clinic-based only; excludes hospital dentists. Reference date within ROC 114 assumed year-end; file does not state it. Sum re-run 2026-11-09 from the downloaded CSV: 14,754 (matches).
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14,754 persons | practising (clinic-based only) | Comparability B | Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025) |
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