Specimen · TWN

China, Taiwan Province of China

Asia · Eastern Asia

China, Taiwan Province of China is recorded at 23.21m people in 2024, with total annual change of -100,652 under the WPP medium variant.

PLATE 158 · TWN

China, Taiwan Province of China

TWN · TW

SHRINKING

population 23.21m

annual change -100,652

natural change -74,825

fertility 0.86

migrant share 4.9%

80+

60-79

40-59

20-39

0-19

population decomposition

2024

Population identity: births minus deaths plus net migration equals total change within the Record tolerance.

Population decomposition for China, Taiwan Province of China in 2024
Births	128,597
Deaths	-203,422
Natural change	-74,825
Net migration	-25,832
Total change	-100,652

time anchors

-13,196,967

Change from 2024 to the WPP medium-variant 2100 endpoint.

Time anchors for China, Taiwan Province of China
This year	-100,652
Since peak	-460,176 since 2019
Projected 2100	10.02m

Vanishing Point

2255

Current-rate extrapolation, not a forecast; WPP medium-variant projections remain the page baseline.

migrant share

4.9%

foreign citizens; working-age share is not published in IMS 2024.

PROVISIONAL

Latest reported

No reviewed Layer 2 dispatch is attached to this country record.

population pyramid

Observed / 2050 / 2100

WPP single-age population by sex, rendered as 5-year pyramid bands from the 101-bin canonical arrays.

Observed 2023 23.32m

100+

95-99

90-94

85-89

80-84

75-79

70-74

65-69

60-64

55-59

50-54

45-49

40-44

35-39

30-34

25-29

20-24

15-19

10-14

5-9

0-4

0-14: 2.79m
15-64: 16.26m
65+: 4.27m

2050 2050 19.43m

100+

95-99

90-94

85-89

80-84

75-79

70-74

65-69

60-64

55-59

50-54

45-49

40-44

35-39

30-34

25-29

20-24

15-19

10-14

5-9

0-4

0-14: 1.60m
15-64: 10.30m
65+: 7.53m

2100 2100 10.02m

100+

95-99

90-94

85-89

80-84

75-79

70-74

65-69

60-64

55-59

50-54

45-49

40-44

35-39

30-34

25-29

20-24

15-19

10-14

5-9

0-4

0-14: 982.4k
15-64: 4.84m
65+: 4.19m

stage

Shrinkage

Stage since 2020.

crossover

2019

First year deaths exceed births, if reached in the series.

working-age support

3.60

Potential support ratio: ages 15-64 per person aged 65+. Working-age peak: 2013.

source

POP/DB/WPP/Rev.2024/GEN/F01/Rev.1

Generated 2026-06-26. Last observed year: 2023.

Selected annual series preview · WPP 2024 medium variant
Year	Population	Change	Births	Deaths	TFR
2024	23.21m	-100,652	128.6k	203.4k	0.86
2030	22.59m	-110,344	116.1k	222.7k	0.89
2050	19.43m	-201,417	104.5k	312.6k	1.07
2080	12.99m	-185,856	72.5k	264.6k	1.25
2100	10.02m	-120,297	58.0k	181.6k	1.33