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2024 Taiwan Health and Welfare Report

Chapter 3 National Health Expenditure
Receiving adequate health care is not only a service expenses starting from the year 2022. It also
fundamental need for the citizens, but also a crucial retroactively revised data from the years 2007 to 2021.
indicator to measure the progress of a nation. The NHE for 2022 was NTD 1.6951 trillion, an increase
Taiwan's National Health Expenditure (NHE), in of 6.8% from the 2021.
line with the latest international version of the System NHE as a share of GDP increased from 6.9% in
of Health Accounts (SHA), expanded its statistical 2012 to 7.5% in 2022. The average per capita NHE
scope from 'medical care' to include the 'healthcare rose from NTD 43,337 in 2012 to NTD 72,687 in 2022,
services' domain, incorporating long-term care with an average annual growth rate of 5.0 % (Figure 2-9).

Figure 2-9 NHE/ GDP Ratios and NHE Per Capita, by Year

NTD
10
75,000 72,687 10
NHE Per Capita NHE / GDP
70,000 67,614
9 9
65,000 62,528
60,000 56,441 58,363 8 8
55,000 47,141 48,839 51,283 53,342 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.3 7.5
6.9 6.9 6.8 6.9 7.0 7 7
50,000 6.7
45,228
45,000 43,337 6 6
40,000
5 5
35,000
30,000 4 4
25,000
3 3
20,000
15,000 2 2
10,000
1 1
5,000
0 0 0
2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 Year
Source: Department of Statistics, MOHW, R.O.C. (Taiwan)

Chapter 4 Social Welfare Indicators middle-low-income households (144,668 and 107,664
households, respectively), with a population of 564,081
Section 1 Low-Income and Middle- Low- individuals (277,364 and 286,717, respectively). These
Income Households figures represent approximately 2.7% of the total
To ensure that the impoverished, the sick, the number of households in the country and 2.4% of the
lonely, or those facing urgent hardships receive care total population (Figure 2-10).
at the level of the national basic standard of living, When examining the data by gender, within the
the government implements various social assistance population of low-income and middle-low-income
measures. The goal is to assist them in achieving households, there were 292,321 males and 271,760
self-reliance and to help them escape poverty at the females. The number of males exceeded that of
earliest opportunity. As of the end of 2023, there were females by a factor of 1.08 (compared to the national
252,332 households classified as low-income and ration of 0.97). When examining by age, the population

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