Taiwan's IT technology comprehensiveness ranked among the top 25.
Taiwan's competitiveness performance ranked 15th in global rankings. Taiwan ranked 25th in terms of technology comprehensiveness in global competitiveness. Among the range of indicators in this sector, its best performance was the average allocated bandwidth to each Internet user, which ranked 6th in the world.
| Key Indicators | |
|---|---|
| Population (millions) | 23.5 |
| GDP (USD) | ＄528.6 |
| GDP per capita (USD) | ＄22453.4 |
| GDP (PPP) % world GDP | 0.94 |
| Index Compnent | Rank／137 | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Global Competitiveness Index | 15 | 5.3 |
| Technology readiness | 25 | 5.7 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 30 | 5.6 |
| 2. Firm-level technology absorption | 29 | 5.2 |
| 3. FDI and technology transfer | 35 | 4.9 |
| 4. Internet users % pop. | 30 | 79.7 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband Internet subscriptions /100 | 40 | 24.2 |
| 6. Internet bandwidth kb/s/user | 6 | 717.6 |
| 7. Mobile-broadband subscriptions /100 pop. | 29 | 90.8 |
- Source: National Development Council、 World Economic Forum(2018)
Comparison of Network Service Applications
Related applications and brands have been developed for domestic Internet services and applications. The usage rates for content and social media are the highest, and they are followed by e-commerce. There are fewer applications of innovative Internet concepts, and the market has yet to mature. In terms of familiarity with terms, performance in artificial intelligence has been higher.
Top Players for Key Verticals
- Sites and brands rank by total unique visitor from Comscore MMX, Top 100 Properties, Total Audience, Oct 2018, Taiwan with re-editing.
- Source: information compiled by InsightXplorer
