CBC reports gold worth US$4.7bn against total reserve assets of US$581.4bn at end-2024.
Taiwan’s gold stock is sizeable in tonnes, but small relative to its reserve-asset balance sheet. The comparison shows that Taiwan’s reserve position is overwhelmingly an FX-reserve story rather than a gold-reserve story. Per person, the official gold stock equals roughly 18 grams.
Source 1: Foreign Exchange Management
Publisher: Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: Central Bank Annual Report foreign exchange management section
Units: US$ billion
Date checked: 2026-05-07
Status: source-labelled
Note: CBC reports gold valued at US$4.7bn and reserve assets of US$581.4bn at end-2024.
Source 2: World Official Gold Holdings
Publisher: World Gold Council / IMF International Financial Statistics
Dataset/table: Official gold holdings by economy
Units: Tonnes
Date checked: 2026-05-07
Status: source-labelled
Note: The WGC/IFS dataset reports Taiwan official gold holdings at about 422.38 tonnes.
Source 3: Indicators of Insurance, December 2025
Publisher: Insurance Bureau, Financial Supervisory Commission
Dataset/table: Table 1 National Statistical Data
Units: Population, thousand persons
Date checked: 2026-05-07
Status: source-labelled
Note: The bulletin lists Taiwan’s 2024 population at 23.400 million, used for per-capita gold.
Gold value moves with market prices, while tonnage changes little. Taiwan is listed in WGC/IFS tables as Taiwan Province of China.
CBC reports gold valued at US$4.7bn and reserve assets of US$581.4bn at end-2024.
The WGC/IFS dataset reports Taiwan official gold holdings at about 422.38 tonnes.
The bulletin lists Taiwan’s 2024 population at 23.400 million, used for per-capita gold.
Gold value and total reserve assets use CBC year-end 2024 figures. Gold tonnage uses World Gold Council/IFS official holdings. Per-capita grams divide 422.38 tonnes by Taiwan’s 2024 population of 23.4m.
Taiwan GNI per capita versus GDP per capita, 2024
Gross National Income (GNI) per resident exceeded GDP per resident by about US$1.1k in 2024.
Taiwan’s Largest Copper-Ore Import Suppliers, 2024
World Bank trade data rank copper ores and concentrates import partners by value.
Taiwan’s Largest Semi-Finished Steel Suppliers, 2024
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