Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.02 years male: 73.43 years female: 78.82 years (1996 est.)
Total fertility rate: 1.76 children born/woman (1996 est.)
Nationality:
noun: Chinese (singular and plural)
adjective: Chinese
Ethnic divisions: Taiwanese 84%, mainland Chinese 14%, aborigine 2%
Religions: mixture of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist 93%,
Christian 4.5%, other 2.5%
Languages: Mandarin Chinese (official), Taiwanese (Min), Hakka
dialects
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1980 est.)
total population: 86%
male: 93%
female: 79%
Government —————
Name of country: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Taiwan local long form: none local short form: T'ai-wan
Data code: TW