Dentists (total): Taiwan, 2025

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

Taiwan had 16,968 practising dentists in 2025, according to MOHW Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114. Basis: practising.

Comparability B Confidence medium

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Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Taiwan. (2026). Dentists (total): Taiwan, as of 2025-12-31 [Data set]. Compiled by Dental Market Radar. https://dentalmarketradar.com/data/tw/dentists-total/2025/

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Record

Value: 16,968 persons
Unit: persons
As of: 2025-12-31
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Revision: 1
Confidence: medium
Method: derived
Basis: practising
Scope: practising
Comparability: Comparability B B: close to the metric definition; the difference is noted
Status: Latest record for this market and metric

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 (hospital file) 鄉鎮市區碼,醫院家數,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 101,5,1979,329,12,77,98,2,95,2,93,0,1066,86,2,2,14,31,3,15,1,13,0,17,9,7,0,0,2,3

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). Hospital file has the same columns with 醫院家數 in place of 診所家數.

Locator: clinic_personnel_114.csv + hos_personnel_114.csv, column 牙醫師, sums 14,754 + 2,214

Local definition

Dentists practising in clinics plus hospitals (institution-based practising headcount)

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

Derived: 14,754 dentists in clinics + 2,214 dentists in hospitals (hos_personnel_114.csv, https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-101848-66ebc291-6bba-45b4-85ea-96a5ec2add02.html). A dentist employed at more than one institution may be counted more than once; reference date within ROC 114 assumed year-end. Cross-check 2026-11-09: MOHW table 1.7 (end of ROC 114) reports 牙醫師 16,968 practising in institutions, identical. This is practising headcount, not cumulative licences; no licensed-but-not-practising count was found.

Metric definition

Dentists registered or licensed to practise (headcount); definition per record notes All markets for this metric.

History

Current records for Dentists (total), Taiwan, newest first
Year	Value	Basis	As of	Comparability	Source	Series break
2025	16,968 persons	practising	2025-12-31	Comparability B	Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)

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