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Section 3 Life Expectancy
In 2022, Taiwan's life expectancy at birth came years. Their respective increases of 0.2 years for males
in at 79.8 years, representing a decrease of 1.1 years and 0.5 years for females over the past 10 years, the
from 80.9 years in 2021 and an increase of 0.3 years gender gap in life expectancy was between 6.4 and 6.7
from 79.5 years in 2012. The male life expectancy was years. (Figure 2-5 and Table 2, Appendix 1).
76.6 years, and the female life expectancy was 83.3

Figure 2-5 Life Expectancy at Birth, by Year

Years
86
Total Population Male Female
84.7
84.0 84.2 84.3
84 83.4 83.2 83.6 83.4 83.7 83.3
82.8
82 81.3
80.7 80.9 80.9
80.4
80.2
80.0 79.8 80.0 79.8
79.5
80
78.1
78 77.3 77.5 77.7 77.7
76.9 76.7 77.0 76.8 76.6
76.4
76
0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Year

Source: Ministry of the Interior, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

Chapter 2 Vital Indicators and new data has been referred to as the "conversion
ratio." The past decade data multiplied by "conversion
Section 1 Ten Leading Causes of Death ratio" has been referred to as the "value adjusted by

Economic transformation, better quality of conversion ratio" which is a separate item from the
life, and improved health care have led to changes original releases of statistical data. For all analyses
in the leading causes of death. In 1952, acute and presented in this report, the data from previous years
communicable diseases took the most lives in Taiwan; before 2018 are all "value adjusted by conversion
today, malignant neoplasms (cancer), accidents, and ratio."
chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases In 2022, there were 208,438 deaths and
represent the main causes. the crude mortality rate was 893.8 per 100,000
Selecting the underlying cause of death has population, an increase of 13.9% compared to 2021
followed ICD-10 version 2016 since 2019, the and an increase of 35.2% compared to 2012. The
mortality rates for causes reflected greater differential standardized mortality rate [based on the WHO
compared to those from 2018. In order to facilitate standard world population age structure for 2000] was
better comparison of data for different years, the 443.9 per 100,000 population, an increase of 9.5%
mortality data for 2018 has been recalculated based compared to 2021 and a decrease of 1.5% compared
on ICD-10 version 2016 and the ratio between the old to 2012.

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