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2024 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

Table 8 Social Insurance

National Health Insurance National annuity
Health Care Utilization
Percentage
Inpatient Average Average Number in people at
Beneficiaries Coverage Outpatient Average of insured
Year Visits per Visits Costs per Costs per Length of objects 25-64 years
Beneficiary per 100 Outpatient Inpatient Stay of age
Beneficiaries Case Case
1,000 1,000
％ Times Cases Points Points Days ％
persons persons
2000 21,401 … 14.0 12.3 725 38,337 8.7 … …
2005 22,315 … 14.5 13.2 909 51,406 9.9 … …
2010 23,074 99.4 14.3 13.5 1,087 54,794 9.9 3,872 27.9
2012 23,281 99.5 14.8 13.8 1,135 55,661 9.8 3,726 26.5
2013 23,463 99.6 14.8 13.5 1,192 57,259 9.9 3,678 25.9
2014 23,622 99.6 14.9 13.7 1,223 58,662 9.7 3,584 25.2
2015 23,737 99.7 14.7 13.9 1,257 59,076 9.5 3,510 24.6
2016 23,815 99.7 14.9 14.1 1,297 61,458 9.7 3,425 24.0
2017 23,880 99.8 14.8 14.2 1,386 63,245 9.4 3,349 23.5
2018 23,948 99.8 15.1 14.5 1,427 65,411 9.4 3,287 23.1
2019 24,020 99.8 15.4 14.8 1,469 66,023 9.3 3,231 22.7
2020 23,987 99.9 14.2 14.1 1,596 70,442 9.3 3,106 21.9
2021 23,861 100.0 13.1 13.1 1,747 75,819 9.6 2,911 20.8
2022 23,787 99.9 14.3 13.2 1,715 77,421 9.4 2,811 20.1
2023 23,883 99.9 16.1 14.8 1,625 75,176 9.0 2,899 20.7
Data Source: NHIA, MOHW and BLA, MOL.
Notes: 1. "Beneficiaries" refers to all those who are eligible for enrollment under National Health Insurance Act.
2. Coverage = Number of people enrolled in NHI / Total number of people in the country eligible for NHI x 100.
3. Data source for health care utilization was updated on August 5, 2024.
4. The length of hospitalized stay is equivalent to the sum of acute and chronic bed days.

Table 9 Social Assistance

Low-income households Middle-low-income households
Proportion Proportion Proportion Proportion
Number of Number of Number of Number of
Year of total of total of total of total
households persons households persons
households population households population
Households % Persons % Households % Persons %
2000 66,467 1.0 156,134 0.7 … … … …
2005 84,823 1.2 211,292 0.9 … … … …
2010 112,200 1.4 273,361 1.2 … … … …
2012 145,613 1.8 357,446 1.5 88,988 1.1 282,019 1.2
2013 148,590 1.8 361,765 1.5 108,589 1.3 334,391 1.4
2014 149,958 1.8 357,722 1.5 114,522 1.4 349,130 1.5
2015 146,379 1.7 342,490 1.5 117,686 1.4 356,185 1.5
2016 145,176 1.7 331,776 1.4 119,081 1.4 358,161 1.5
2017 142,814 1.7 317,257 1.3 117,776 1.4 350,425 1.5
2018 143,941 1.6 311,526 1.3 115,570 1.3 338,468 1.4
2019 144,863 1.6 304,470 1.3 115,937 1.3 334,237 1.4
2020 146,342 1.6 300,241 1.3 114,840 1.3 325,681 1.4
2021 146,995 1.6 295,901 1.3 111,814 1.2 312,355 1.3
2022 146,029 1.6 288,703 1.2 108,448 1.2 296,697 1.3
2023 144,668 1.6 277,364 1.2 107,664 1.2 286,717 1.2
Data source: Department of Statistics, MOHW, R.O.C. (Taiwan)
176 Note: The new social assistance law has been implemented since Jul. 1, 2011; the identification standard becomes loose, and middle-low-income
households are included.