Goods and primary income drove the US$113.8bn current-account surplus.
This breakdown shows what sits beneath Taiwan’s headline current-account surplus. Goods produced a US$100.7bn surplus and primary income added US$30.3bn, while services and secondary income offset part of the gain. The resulting US$113.8bn current-account surplus was the second-highest on record according to CBC.
Source 1: CBC Annual Report 2024 - Balance of Payments
Publisher: Central Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
Dataset/table: Balance of payments table
Units: US$ million
Date checked: 2026-05-12
Evidence: CBC reports 2024 goods balance, services balance, primary income balance, secondary income balance and current-account balance.
Note: CBC reports 2024 goods balance, services balance, primary income balance, secondary income balance and current-account balance.
Positive bars add to the surplus; negative bars offset it. Values may not sum visually after rounding but the unrounded component total equals the current-account balance.
Uses CBC Balance of Payments Quarterly figures in the Annual Report 2024. Components are shown on a balance-of-payments basis, not customs trade basis, and are measured in current U.S. dollars.
All component balances come from the same CBC balance-of-payments table for 2024.
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 top-country trade-balance map without map
In 2025 Taiwan ran a US$150.1B surplus with the U.S. and a US$37.0B deficit with Korea.
Taiwan electronics export concentration, 2025
ICT products plus electronic parts accounted for 74% of goods exports in 2025.