Taiwan exported about US$20.3k in goods per resident, ahead of Korea, Japan and China.
Exports per person normalizes trade scale by population. Taiwan’s figure was about 1.5 times Korea’s, 3.6 times Japan’s and 8.0 times China’s using the supplied 2024 export and population figures. The comparison shows Taiwan’s unusually high goods-export intensity in a compact peer view.
Source 5: Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan
Publisher: Ministry of the Interior, Taiwan
Units: persons
Source 6: World Bank / World Trade Organization
Publisher: World Bank / World Trade Organization
Units: current U.S. dollars
All displayed export values use 2024 merchandise export data. Per-person values divide export value by population; Taiwan population is end-2024, and peer populations use World Bank 2024 totals.
Values are current U.S. dollars per resident. Taiwan exports use the WTO/Chinese Taipei profile; Japan’s row is refreshed to the World Bank/WTO 2024 merchandise export value; Korea and China use WTO-profile values already supplied in the brief.
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