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2024 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

Section 3 Life Expectancy
In 2023, Taiwan's life expectancy at birth came years. Over the last 10 years, it has remained at the
in at 80.2 years, representing an increase of 0.4 years same level for males and has increased by 0.3 year
from 79.8 years in 2022 and an increase of 0.2 years for females, the gender gap in life expectancy was
from 80.0 years in 2013. The male life expectancy was between 6.4 and 6.8 years. (Figure 2-5 and Table 2,
76.9 years, and the female life expectancy was 83.7 Appendix 1).

Figure 2-5 Life Expectancy at Birth, by Year

Years
86
Total Population Male Female
84.7
84.0 84.2 84.3 83.7
84 83.4 83.2 83.6 83.4 83.7 83.3

82 81.3
80.7 80.9 80.9
80.4
80.2 80.2
80.0 79.8 80.0 79.8
80
78.1
78 77.3 77.5 77.7 77.7
76.9 77.0 76.8 76.9
76.7 76.6
76

0
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 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 2023, there were 205,575 deaths and
represent the main causes. the crude mortality rate was 880.7 per 100,000
Selecting the underlying cause of death has population, a decrease of 1.5% compared to 2022
followed ICD-10 version 2016 since 2019, the and an increase of 33.2% compared to 2013. 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 429.6 per 100,000 population, a decrease of 3.2%
mortality data for 2018 has been recalculated based compared to 2022 and a decrease of 1.3% compared
on ICD-10 version 2016 and the ratio between the old to 2013.

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