Manufacturing employed 482,608 foreign workers, far above other listed industries.
Taiwan’s migrant-worker distribution is both industrial and nationality-specific. Manufacturing alone employed 482,608 foreign workers at end-2025, led by Vietnam and the Philippines, while other service activities employed 209,180, mostly Indonesians. The matrix view exposes why one total count hides very different labour-market roles by origin.
Source 1: Workforce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Publisher: Workforce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Units: persons
Source 2: Workforce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Publisher: Workforce Development Agency, Ministry of Labor, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
Units: persons
Other service activities include much of the social-welfare/care work category in this table. Industry labels are shortened for SVG readability. Matrix headers and source footer are enlarged by the v1.9.26 renderer.
Uses MOL Table 12-4 end-December 2025 values. Rows are selected high-level industries; columns are total and the four largest nationalities.
Taiwan Electronics Manufacturing Wage Premium, 2025
Electronic-components median regular pay was 27.7% above manufacturing.
Taiwan’s Largest Battery Import Sources, 2024
China supplied most of Taiwan’s listed battery and accumulator import value.
Taiwan’s Largest Memory-chip Import Sources, 2024
Korea supplied nearly half of Taiwan’s listed memory-chip import value.