Distillers Taiwan
A one-page guide to Taiwan for the spirits trade: the country, its people, its economy and how it drinks.
At a glance
- Capital
- Taipei
- Official languages
- Mandarin (Standard Chinese)
- Currency
- New Taiwan dollar (TWD)
- Time zone
- UTC+8
- Area
- 36,197 km²
People
- Population
- 23.3 million (2025)
Economy
- GDP
- US$920.6 billion (2025)
- GDP per person
- US$39,512 (2025)
- Economic growth
- 8.8% (2025)
- Inflation
- 1.7% (2025)
Climate
Marine tropical overall: subtropical in the north and centre, tropical in the south, temperate in the mountains. The plum-rain monsoon is May-June, hot humid weather June-September, typhoons mostly July-September, and a rainy northeast winter from November to March.
Alcohol
- Alcohol is
- Legal
- Legal drinking age
- 18
Sources: World Bank (population, economy and demographics), WHO Global Health Observatory (alcohol per adult and drinking mix); Business France - spirits in Taiwan (July 2026); Wikipedia - Taiwan (basics, climate); IMF DataMapper WEO (GDP, population, growth, inflation; retrieved 26 Oct 2026); UN Comtrade (HS 2208); WHO Global Health Observatory; Wikipedia - Legal drinking age; USDA FAS - Taiwan alcoholic beverages (May 2022); Wikipedia - Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation. Figures are the latest each source publishes; the year is shown beside each one.