Sources: Taiwan
Dental Market Radar Editorial Team · Updated
Source registry for Taiwan dental market data: publishers, cadence and licence status.
15 registered sources for Taiwan. Licence status is recorded per publisher; figures are cited with a link, not copied wholesale.
Registry
Chou et al. 2023, Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea using home sleep test in Taiwan, Nature and Science of Sleep 15:1107-1116
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press (peer-reviewed journal)
- URL
- https://www.dovepress.com/prevalence-of-obstructive-sleep-apnea-using-home-sleep-test-in-taiwan--peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS
- Update cadence
- One-off
- Licence status
- restricted
- Licence note
- Article is CC BY-NC 3.0; Dove's permissions page bars commercial reuse or linking for commercial purposes without written consent and a fee.
- Notes
- Clinic-referred ENT cohort (n=1,372, age 30-70), not a population survey; therefore not usable as population prevalence.
- Facts using this source
- tw.osa_prevalence_adult_pct.2025
Clinic personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-101850-e55388e0-b920-486f-b95b-4f825402a81d.html
- Update cadence
- Annual (dataset updated 2026-08-12)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Clinic-based personnel only; hospital-based personnel in a separate dataset.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_hygienists_total.2025, tw.dental_technicians_total.2025, tw.dentists_in_clinics.2025, tw.dentists_in_clinics.2025, tw.dentists_per_100k.2025, tw.dentists_total.2025
Clinic specialty statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-101851-b064072e-abe2-4b0e-bb33-62fc360d8f7d.html
- Update cadence
- Annual (dataset updated 2026-08-12)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- A clinic may list more than one specialty.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_clinics_total.2025
DGBAS national income news release, 30 Oct 2026: key economic indicators incl. per-capita GDP
- Publisher
- Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS, 行政院主計總處), Taiwan
- URL
- https://ws.dgbas.gov.tw/001/Upload/463/relfile/10980/236826/news11510.pdf
- Update cadence
- Quarterly (Feb/May/Aug/Nov revisions)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- DGBAS Open Data Statement covers data and materials published on its website (free, perpetual, worldwide, derivatives allowed); OGDL-Taiwan-1.0 attribution wording was not read on this page, so credit DGBAS as source.
- Notes
- Table 1 lists per-capita GDP in NT$ and US$ by year; 2025 (ROC 114) marked revised (r) in the May release, shown without marker in October. Same figure 39,515 in both releases.
- Facts using this source
- tw.gdp_per_capita_usd.2025
Handbook of Taiwan's National Health Insurance 2020-2021
- Publisher
- National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.nhi.gov.tw/en/dl-8-1899d571eebf4241b538c5411d610168-2.pdf
- Update cadence
- Periodic
- Licence status
- unknown
- Licence note
- nhi.gov.tw returned a Cloudflare challenge (403) for the site and terms; terms not read.
- Notes
- English PDF, 128 pages; lists NHI-covered dental care rules and the exclusion list (Art. 51).
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_public_coverage.2020
Hospital personnel statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-101848-66ebc291-6bba-45b4-85ea-96a5ec2add02.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Hospital-based personnel; file hos_personnel_114.csv, 159 township rows.
- Facts using this source
- none yet
Hospital specialty statistics open dataset, ROC year 114 (2025)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-101849-767602cf-f8c7-4c25-8154-689da9066742.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- File hos_sp114.csv; a hospital may list several specialties.
- Facts using this source
- tw.hospitals_with_dental_dept.2025
Household registration population statistics, open data API ODRP019 (ROC year 114)
- Publisher
- Department of Household Registration, Ministry of the Interior (MOI), Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.ris.gov.tw/rs-opendata/api/v1/datastore/ODRP019/114?page=1
- Update cadence
- Monthly/annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Translated: copyright-protected material on the MOI Household Registration site is open under Taiwan OGDL v1.0, free, sub-licensable, source must be cited; excludes patents/trademarks/logos and specially marked items; personal-data law still applies.
- Phase
- 1
- Notes
- Village-level rows, 4 pages; sum of male+female columns. API returned 7,752 rows.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dentists_per_100k.2025-hl, tw.population.2025
Medical institution status open datasets (index)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://dep.mohw.gov.tw/DOS/lp-6601-113.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Translated: all copyright-protected material on the MOHW site is open under Taiwan OGDL v1.0, free of charge, sub-licensable, source must be cited; excludes patents/trademarks/agency logos and items specially marked as needing consent.
- Phase
- 1
- Facts using this source
- none yet
MOE open data: university/college profile by school and department (students, teachers, previous-year graduates), file sdata.csv
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan
- URL
- https://stats.moe.gov.tw/files/opendata/sdata.csv
- Update cadence
- Annual (academic year)
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- MOE's website data declaration (translated: published free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable; credit the source, do not maliciously alter, personal data and flagged media excluded); this is the ministry-level declaration, the stats.moe.gov.tw sub-site's own page was not available.
- Notes
- Column 學年度 = academic year of the 15 Oct student count; 上學年度畢業生數 = graduates of the previous academic year. Cross-checked with graduatesc.csv (dataset 9620), which gives the same 418 for 牙醫學系 bachelor, 學年度 114.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_graduates_annual.2025, tw.dental_schools_total.2025
MOHW press release approving 2024 NHI global budget incl. dental outpatient budget
- Publisher
- MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://mohw.gov.tw/cp-16-76820-1.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Notes
- States 2024 dental outpatient global budget NT$52.037 billion (NHI payer budget only, not total dental spend).
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_spend_total_usd.2025, tw.self_pay_share_of_dental_spend_pct.2025
MOHW press statement on the draft Oral Hygiene Personnel Act (口腔衛生人員法草案), 12 Mar 2018
- Publisher
- Department of Mental and Oral Health, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://mohw.gov.tw/cp-16-40127-1.html
- Update cadence
- One-off
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Notes
- Shows that dental hygienists are not a licensed medical-personnel category; current dental assistants are unlicensed. Trade-press (LTN, July 2026) reports a Legislative Yuan hearing and MOHW commissioning NHRI comparative research; not recorded as a source.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_hygienists_total.2018, tw.dental_schools_total.2018
MOHW public-service statistics table 1.6: number of hospitals and clinics, beds, by year; end of ROC 114 (2025)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-73289-1ae44af8-8716-4a51-9012-aeb216ea1510.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Notes
- xlsx; sheet 1 gives yearly counts of hospitals and clinics split western/Chinese/dental medicine and public/private since ROC 78.
- Facts using this source
- tw.chairside_cadcam_installed_base.2025, tw.dental_3d_printer_installed_base.2025, tw.dental_clinics_total.2025-x, tw.dso_clinic_share_pct.2025, tw.ios_installed_base.2025
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)
- Publisher
- Department of Statistics, MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://www.mohw.gov.tw/dl-73291-c9f551df-f78a-41ab-a554-addf890c8369.html
- Update cadence
- Annual
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- All data and material on the MOHW site (copyright part only) is royalty-free, sublicensable, covers derivative products, attribution to MOHW required; excludes patents, trademarks, agency logos, and items specially marked as needing consent; licence is stated site-wide (dataset zip itself carries no readable licence text) and is compatible with CC BY 4.0 per data.gov.tw/license.
- Notes
- xlsx, 3 sheets (headcount, per 10,000, notes). Institutions = hospitals, clinics, dental technician offices and other registered medical institutions; footnote says definition of non-medical institutions widened from ROC 107.
- Facts using this source
- tw.dental_technicians_total.2025-x, tw.dental_technicians_total.2025-x, tw.dentists_per_100k.2025-x, tw.dentists_practising.2025, tw.population.2025-x
NHI Annual Report 2023-2024 (全民健康保險年報)
- Publisher
- National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA), MOHW, Taiwan
- URL
- https://media.nhi.gov.tw/md/dl-51894-9eb2e73944774f9bb537d544a83115af-3.pdf
- Update cadence
- Biennial
- Licence status
- attribution
- Licence note
- Site-wide declaration covers all data and material on the NHIA website (copyright only, not trademarks/logos), including derivative products and services, with source attribution; items specially marked as needing consent are excluded; the PDF itself was not separately checked for such a marking.
- Notes
- Bilingual PDF, 100 pages. nhi.gov.tw HTML pages return HTTP 403 to automated fetch; media.nhi.gov.tw PDFs download.
- Facts using this source
- tw.clear_aligner_cases_annual.2025, tw.dental_public_coverage.2024, tw.implant_procedures_annual.2025, tw.oral_appliance_reimbursement.2025