Annual trips recovered to 767.1m in 2025, about 97.2% of the 2019 level.
Taipei Metro ridership tracks the return of daily urban mobility after the pandemic shock. Annual trips fell from 789.6m in 2019 to 531.1m in 2021, then recovered to 767.1m in 2025. The 2025 total was about 97.2% of the 2019 level, showing a near-complete recovery on the official Taipei Metro series.
Source 1: Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
Publisher: Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
Units: ten thousand trips; average daily trips
The Circular Line is included for 2020 through May 22, 2023, as shown by Taipei Metro; from May 23, 2023 it was transferred to New Taipei Metro.
Taipei Metro reports annual ridership in ten thousand trips by system. Totals here sum Wenhu, high-capacity lines and the Circular Line where listed, then convert ten thousand trips to million trips.
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Korea and Japan supplied about 92% of Taiwan’s 2024 paraxylene import value.
Taiwan petroleum-product exports by type
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