“FAQ:Where are your data on Taiwan? As part of China's conditions for World Bank membership, Taiwan is considered to be a part of China and is not listed as a separate country. We handle data for Taiwan in the following manner: we do not add the numbers for Taiwan to the data cited for China, but Taiwan is added to the world aggregate and the High Income countries aggregate. However, there are some exceptions: for some agricultural data series received from the Food and Agriculture Organization, Taiwan figures are part of the numbers cited for China (as are Macao and Hong Kong); and for some of our trade data in World Development Indicators tables, separate figures are reported for Taiwan.

For data on Taiwan, please refer to the statistics published in the following official publications:

• Financial Statistics, Taiwan District, The Republic of China, The Central Bank of China
• Monthly Bulletin of Statistics of the Republic of China, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, The Republic of China
• Quarterly National Economic Trends, Taiwan Area, The Republic of China
• China Statistical Information Network
• Census and Statistics Department, Hong Kong
• Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, The Republic of China
• Ministry of Economic Affairs, ROC”
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