Country Resource - Taiwan
Taiwan
- Population...................................................................23,603,049 (July 2020 est.)
- Population growth rate ..............................................................0.11% (2020 est.)
- Birth rate.....................................................8 births/1,000 population (2020 est.)
- Death rate...............................................7.9 deaths/1,000 population (2020 est.)
- Net migration rate..............................0.8 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2020 est.)
- Ethnic groups*................................Han Chinese (including Hoklo, who compose approximately 70% of Taiwan's population, Hakka, and other groups originating in mainland China) more than 95%, indigenous Malayo-Polynesian peoples 2.3%
Note 1: there are 16 officially recognized indigenous groups: Amis, Atayal, Bunun, Hla'alua, Kanakaravu, Kavalan, Paiwan, Puyuma, Rukai, Saisiyat, Sakizaya, Seediq, Thao, Truku, Tsou, and Yami; Amis, Paiwan, and Atayal are the largest and account for roughly 70% of the indigenous population
Note 2: although not definitive, the majority of current genetic, archeological, and linguistic data support the theory that Taiwan is the ultimate source for the spread of humans across the Pacific to Polynesia; the expansion (ca. 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1200) took place via the Philippines and eastern Indonesia and reached Fiji and Tonga by about 900 B.C.; from there voyagers spread across all of the rest of the Pacific islands over the next two millennia