Manufacturing accounted for 39.79% of GDP in an official 2025 economic report.
Manufacturing remained unusually large in Taiwan’s GDP structure in 2024. An official 2025 economic report put manufacturing at 39.79% of GDP, compared with 58.74% for services and 1.47% for the primary sector. The same report notes a smaller 34.94% employment share, indicating higher value added per worker than the sector’s job share alone suggests.
Source 1: Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs / Swiss representations
Publisher: Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs / Swiss representations
Units: percent of GDP; percent of employment
Source 2: DGBAS, Executive Yuan
Publisher: DGBAS, Executive Yuan
Units: current prices; percent composition
The headline manufacturing share is taken from an official Swiss economic report on Taiwan, not directly extracted from the DGBAS table in this conversion. DGBAS is included as the underlying national-accounts source family.
Shares are sectoral percentages of GDP at current prices as reported in the 2025 economic report. The 2019 comparison is the report’s stated manufacturing share for 2019.
Taiwan re-export versus domestic-export value
2025 goods exports were US$640.7B; official trade-stat coverage excludes re-exports.
Taiwan electronics export concentration, 2025
ICT products plus electronic parts accounted for 74% of goods exports in 2025.
Taiwan’s 5 largest methanol suppliers
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