Dentists per 100,000 population: Taiwan, 2025-hl

Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated 2026-11-09 · Data as of 2025-12-31

Taiwan had 72.8 dentists per 100,000 people in 2025 (practising basis), derived from 16,968 practising dentists (Department of Statistics MOHW public-service statistics table 1.7) divided by 23,299,132 people (MOI Household registration population statistics, open data API ODRP019). Basis: practising.

Comparability B Confidence medium

Cite this

Department of Household Registration, Ministry of the Interior (MOI), Taiwan. (2026). Dentists per 100,000 population: Taiwan, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dentists-per-100k/2025-hl/

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Record

Value: 72.8 per 100,000
Unit: per 100,000
As of: 2025-12-31
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Revision: 1
Confidence: medium
Method: derived
Basis: practising
Scope: other
Headline: Yes: this record leads in cross-market tables
Comparability: Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
Derived from: tw.dentists_practising.2025, tw.population.2025
Status: Latest record for this market and metric

Source quote

{"statistic_yyy":"114","district_code":"65000010001","site_id":"新北市板橋區","village":"留侯里","household_ordinary_total":"448","household_business_total":"0","household_single_total":"293","household_ordinary_m":"649","household_business_m":"0","household_single_m":"139","household_ordinary_f":"699","household_business_f":"0","household_single_f":"154"}

English: First API record (village-level), fields: household totals and male/female counts for ordinary, business and single-person households. The total is the sum of all male and female fields over all 7,752 villages.

Locator: numerator tw.dentists_practising.2025; denominator tw.population.2025

Local definition

Headline rate (DECISIONS L4): practising dentists / Ministry of the Interior household-registration population. L5 EXCEPTION: Taiwan has no World Bank series, so the national denominator is used.

Source

Department of Household Registration, Ministry of the Interior (MOI), Taiwan: Household registration population statistics, open data API ODRP019 (ROC year 114). Registry entry: tw-moi-ris-pop.

Notes

Derived: 16,968 / 23,299,132 x 100,000 = 72.8. Cannot follow L5 (no World Bank population for Taiwan); denominator is the national registration population, same year. Labelled comparability B for this reason.

Metric definition

Dentists per 100,000 population; derived = dentists / population x 100000, or reported by source All markets for this metric.

History

Current records on the same basis (practising). A dashed line crosses a documented series break. The table below lists every record.

Current records for Dentists per 100,000 population, Taiwan, newest first
Year	Value	Basis	As of	Comparability	Source
2025-hl	72.8 per 100,000	practising	2025-12-31	Comparability B	Household registration population statistics, open data API ODRP019 (ROC year 114)
2025	72.8 per 100,000	practising	2025-12-31	Comparability B	Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)
2025-x	72.8 per 100,000	practising	2025-12-31	Comparability A	MOHW public-service statistics table 1.7: practising medical personnel in institutions and per 10,000 population, by county/city, end of ROC 114 (2025)

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