Country Reports

Taiwan

Highlights

  1. Internet Society gives Taiwan (Province of China) an overall Internet resilience score of 62%, which means it has medium capacity to withstand unexpected faults or challenges to normal operation.
  2. In Taiwan (Province of China), there are 20 data centers and there are 7 active IXPs.
  3. Taiwan (Province of China) received a security preparedness score of 92.53 on the 2023 Global Cybersecurity Index. Its e-government system readiness score is 64%.
  4. Approximately 93% of the population is an Internet user.
  5. Out of the 1000 most-visited websites, 78% can be reached on a local server or cache in Taiwan (Province of China). This exceeds Internet Society's target of 50%.

Internet Usage Permanent link

Internet penetration

93%

of the population used the Internet at least once over a 3-month period

74%
Asia average

Usage by gender

Proportion of the population that uses the Internet, by gender

  • Female: 93%
  • Male: 93%

Note: Measurement methods vary by country.

Average download speed

Based on an average of 300 users

  • 157.67 Mbps

    Broadband

  • 72.16 Mbps

    Mobile

Network Infrastructure Permanent link

Mobile 4G and 5G coverage

No data

has access to at least one device with 4G mobile Internet

No data

has access to at least one device with 5G mobile Internet

Active networks

The building blocks of the Internet, identified by Autonomous System (AS) numbers.

262

active networks

Adoption of IPv6

51%

of users can access online resources using IPv6, the new generation of the Internet Protocol

21%
Asia average

Market Overview Permanent link

Data centers

Number of data centers in operation

20

active data centers

Internet Exchange Points

7

IXPs in Taiwan

6
Asia average
22% of 471

registered networks connect via an IXP

Total number of IXP members in Taiwan

Locally cached content

78%

of the top 1000 websites in Taiwan can be accessed through an in-country server or cache

50%
Asia average

Top Internet service providers

Top Internet Service Providers (ISPs) by market share

  • HINET Data Communication Business Group: 27%
  • EMOME-NET Mobile Business Group: 19%
  • FET-TW Far EastTone Telecommunication Co., Ltd.: 16%
  • TAIWANMOBILE-AS Taiwan Mobile Co., Ltd.: 15%
  • KBRO-AS-TW kbro CO. Ltd.: 5%

Digital public services rating

The UN's measure of a country's e-government ecosystem readiness

98%

Country-level domain use

462,999

domains registered using .tw, the country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

Security Permanent link

Global Cybersecurity Index

Estimates the ability of a country or economy to prevent and manage cyber incidents

93 / 100

Routing security practices

The use of resource public key infrastructure (RPKI), which connects IP prefixes to the correct autonomous system (AS)

ROA

Route origin authorization uses a cryptographic signature to certify network announcements

  • 98%
    of IPv4 prefixes protected
  • 99%
    of IPv6 prefixes protected

ROV

Route origin validation filters out route announcements

  • 69%
    of networks are using ROV to filter out invalid prefixes and networks

DNSSEC status

  • Active

DNSSEC coverage

0%

of all domains under the ccTLD are protected with DNSSEC

1%
Asia average

Adoption of DNSSEC

5%

of DNS queries are protected by DNSSEC, across all web traffic

40%
Asia average

Footnotes Permanent link

The geographic boundaries and country names shown do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Internet Society concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area of its authorities. Regions and Sub-Regions are taken from the UN Standard Country or Area Codes for Statistical Use (Series M, No. 49).

Pulse uses the most recent possible data from international sources. For some indicators in Pulse, the source data may be updated more frequently. For more information on how often we update individual data points, see the Indicator page.