Fact · Workforce
Dentists (practising): Taiwan, 2025
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated · Data as of
Taiwan had 16,968 practising dentists in 2025, according to Department of Statistics MOHW public-service statistics table 1.7. Basis: practising.
Comparability A Confidence high
Cite this
Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan. (2026). Dentists (practising): Taiwan, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dentists-practising/2025/
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Record
- Value
- 16,968 persons
- Unit
- persons
- As of
- Accessed
- Revision
- 1
- Confidence
- high
- Method
- reported
- Basis
- practising
- Scope
- practising
- Comparability
- Comparability A A: same definition as the metric
- Status
- Latest record for this market and metric
Source quote
機 構 執 業 醫 事 人 員 數 ─ 按 縣 市 別 分 民國114年底 單位：人 醫事人員 | 合計 | 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 | 醫事人員 | 鑲牙生 | 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 總 計 | 377484 | 56405 | 8234 | 16968 | 32523 | 5061 | 10601 | 119 | 7780 | 58 | 180559 | 15488 | 136 | 80 | 總 計 | 26 | 4045 | 9138 | 1577 | 4984 | 161 | 2368 | 4436 | 2456 | 2058 | 519 | 1981 | 798 | 4523 | 4402
English: Practising medical personnel in institutions by county/city, end of ROC 114, unit: persons. Header row then the national total row (cells joined with " | "); 牙醫師 (dentists) = 16,968; 牙體技術師 (dental technicians) = 1,981; 牙體技術生 (technician trainees) = 798.
Locator: xlsx sheet 1 (醫事人員數), row 總 計, column 牙醫師
Local definition
Dentists (牙醫師) registered as practising in a medical institution (機構執業醫事人員), end of ROC year 114
Source
Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan: 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). Registry entry: mohw-tw-stat-institution-personnel-114.
Notes
MOHW official count of dentists practising in medical institutions at end-2025. Identical to the sum of the clinic (14,754) and hospital (2,214) open datasets. Licensed-but-not-practising dentists are not included.
Metric definition
Dentists reported as practising / on the resident register (narrower than registered) All markets for this metric.
History
| Year | Value | Basis | As of | Comparability | Source | Series break |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16,968 persons | practising | 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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