How many hospitals and clinics does Taiwan have? 460 hospitals and 24,086 clinics in 2025

At the end of 2025, Taiwan had 24,546 healthcare facilities (醫療院所): 460 hospitals (455 Western-medicine hospitals, 1 dental hospital and 4 Chinese-medicine hospitals) and 24,086 clinics (12,688 Western-medicine clinics, 7,128 dental clinics and 4,270 Chinese-medicine clinics). Cross-check: 455 + 1 + 4 = 460, 12,688 + 7,128 + 4,270 = 24,086, and 460 + 24,086 = 24,546, so both levels add up. The figures come from the Ministry of Health and Welfare (衛生福利部, MOHW) 2025 Annual Statistics on Medical Care Institutions and Services (《114 年醫事機構服務量統計年報》; ROC year 114 = 2025), published on July 31, 2026. 2025 is the statistical year; 2026 is the year of publication and of this article’s update.

When people ask “how many hospitals are there in Taiwan” or “how many clinics does Taiwan have”, they usually mean a specific row of Table 2 in this annual report, so it helps to be clear which one before answering. For hospitals, the answer is 460, covering Western-medicine, dental and Chinese-medicine hospitals. For clinics, the answer is 24,086, covering Western-medicine, dental and Chinese-medicine clinics. “Healthcare facilities” means hospitals and clinics combined, 24,546 in total, and excludes pharmacies, long-term care institutions and other types of medical institutions.

The six facility types in one table

The six types moved in different directions between 2003 and 2025. All three hospital types shrank or stayed nearly flat. Western-medicine hospitals, the largest hospital group, fell from 558 in 2003 to 455 in 2025, a cumulative drop of 103 facilities, or 18.5%. Chinese-medicine hospitals fell from 36 to 4, down 88.9%, the steepest decline of the six types. Dental hospitals were always rare: there were none in 2003 and 1 in 2025. All three clinic types grew. Western-medicine clinics rose from 9,565 to 12,688, cumulative growth of 32.7%. Chinese-medicine clinics rose from 2,729 to 4,270, up 56.5%, the fastest growth of the six types. Dental clinics rose from 5,889 to 7,128, up 21.0%. Overall, Taiwan’s healthcare supply shows a structural shift of “hospitals consolidating, clinics expanding”: over 22 years the number of hospitals fell by 134 (from 594 to 460), while the number of clinics rose by 5,903 (from 18,183 to 24,086). For full year-by-year figures and county-level distributions of a single type, see the dedicated articles: Western-medicine clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese), Chinese-medicine clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese), and dental clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese). For which specialties drove the growth in clinics, see Taiwan clinics by specialty, 2012–2025: between 2012 and 2025 psychiatry and urology clinics doubled, while pediatrics and OB/GYN clinics fell.

Total healthcare facilities by year (2003–2025)

The chart below takes one data point every five years to show the long-term trend in total healthcare facilities from 2005 to 2025, with the vertical axis starting at 0. Full year-by-year figures are in the table that follows.

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From 2003 to 2025, the total number of healthcare facilities in Taiwan grew from 18,777 to 24,546, an increase of 5,769 over 22 years, or cumulative growth of 30.72%, calculated as (24,546 − 18,777) ÷ 18,777 × 100%. Over this period the number of hospitals kept declining, from 594 to 460, while the number of clinics kept rising, from 18,183 to 24,086. 2025 added 278 facilities over 2024 (from 24,268 to 24,546), annual growth of 1.15%, lower than in 2022 to 2024 (about 1.3% to 1.6% a year).

Healthcare facilities by city and county, 2025

At the end of 2025, Taipei City had the most healthcare facilities of Taiwan’s 22 cities and counties, 4,028, followed by Taichung City with 3,808 and New Taipei City with 3,666. The six special municipalities (New Taipei, Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung) together had 18,644, or 75.96% of the national total, showing how heavily healthcare facilities are concentrated in these six cities. Taipei City also had the most Western-medicine clinics and dental clinics, whereas Taichung City led in Chinese-medicine clinics with 836, ahead of Taipei City’s 629; this ranking matches the county-level ranking of Chinese-medicine physicians. Lienchiang County (the Matsu Islands), the least populous, had just 5 healthcare facilities, the fewest of the 22. City and county names follow the official annual report; shares are rounded to two decimal places, so totals may differ slightly due to rounding.

Reading facility counts alongside workforce counts

Facility counts and workforce counts are two different statistical bases, so one cannot be divided by the other to get “average doctors per facility”. The workforce numerator includes practitioners working in both hospitals and clinics, while the facility denominator counts only the number of facilities themselves; the two cover different statistical scopes to begin with. For year-by-year numbers and county distributions of Western-medicine physicians, Chinese-medicine physicians and dentists, see physicians in Taiwan (in Chinese). For nurses’ year-by-year numbers, density per 10,000 population and county distribution, see nurses in Taiwan (in Chinese). Pharmacies are not healthcare facilities in this sense and follow a separate statistical basis; pharmacy counts and the number of pharmacists practicing in healthcare facilities are covered in pharmacies and pharmacists in Taiwan (in Chinese).

Clinics in your own township: clinic.joelin.cc

All the figures above are national or county-level aggregates. To look up the township or district where you live, you can use a separate tool site, clinic.joelin.cc. It turns the same MOHW open data on medical institutions into individual lookup pages for 368 townships and districts and 22 cities and counties. Each page lists local clinic density per 10,000 residents, which specialties are missing, how many facilities opened and closed over the previous full year, and a complete list of facilities. The data snapshot matches the township-level statistics in this series, December 31, 2025, and is updated once a year after that.

There are three ways in: the Taiwan clinic map home page lets you search by city/county or township; the same home page also gives an overview of all 22 cities and counties, for example the Taipei City page at clinic.joelin.cc/counties/taipei-city/; and to go straight to townships without a dental clinic, see the list of townships without dental clinics. The tool site also has a specialty overview, which turns the MOHW Department of Statistics specialty data for 2012 to 2025 into pages for each of 45 specialties, with year-by-year counts and distributions by city/county and township. The tool site presents only registration facts and statistics and does not offer medical advice.

Series guide

1. Western-medicine clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese): year-by-year counts, annual growth rates and distribution across the 22 cities and counties.
2. Chinese-medicine clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese): year-by-year counts, annual growth rates, distribution across the 22 cities and counties, and a comparison with the number of Chinese-medicine physicians.
3. Dental clinics in Taiwan (in Chinese): year-by-year counts, annual growth rates and distribution across the 22 cities and counties.
4. Physicians in Taiwan (in Chinese): 2025 numbers of Western-medicine physicians, Chinese-medicine physicians and dentists, with year-by-year changes and county distribution.
5. Nurses in Taiwan (in Chinese): 2025 nurse numbers, density per 10,000 population and county distribution.
6. Pharmacies and pharmacists in Taiwan (in Chinese): pharmacy counts and pharmacists practicing in healthcare facilities, with an explanation of how its statistical basis differs from the rest of this series.

The six articles above use facility-level aggregates from the MOHW annual report. Four more articles instead use institution-level open data from the MOHW Department of Medical Affairs (醫事司) (snapshot of 2025-12-31) to analyze facilities one by one. Their statistical basis differs slightly from the annual report, and they suit a closer look at size, specialty and geographic distribution.

1. How many Chinese-medicine physicians work in Taiwan’s Chinese-medicine clinics (in Chinese): 4,278 Chinese-medicine clinics grouped by number of registered Chinese-medicine physicians, the share of single-physician clinics, and a county comparison.
2. How many clinics does Taiwan have by specialty (in Chinese): counts of Western-medicine, dental and Chinese-medicine clinics by registered specialty, ranked from internal medicine and family medicine through dermatology and psychiatry.
3. Which townships in Taiwan have no dental or Chinese-medicine clinic (in Chinese): coverage of the three clinic types across all 368 townships and districts, with lists of townships that have none.
4. Where clinics in Taiwan are increasing and decreasing (in Chinese): a comparison of the end-2024 and end-2025 snapshots, with net openings and closures for Taiwan as a whole, each city/county and each township/district.

One more article uses a different dataset, the MOHW Department of Statistics open data on clinics by specialty, to look at the long-term trend: Taiwan clinics by specialty, 2012–2025: psychiatry and urology doubled, pediatrics and OB/GYN fell covers changes in registered clinic counts by specialty from 2012 to 2025 and explains why the data for dental and Chinese-medicine specialties are almost empty.

Sources and statistical scope

The healthcare facility counts, physician numbers and nurse numbers in this article all come from the MOHW 2025 Annual Statistics on Medical Care Institutions and Services, using year-end values for each year. In this article, “healthcare facilities” means hospitals plus clinics, that is, the combined hospitals and clinics of the three main categories of Western medicine, dentistry and Chinese medicine. It excludes pharmacies, long-term care institutions and other medical institutions. The annual report does not list public health centers (衛生所) separately; this article follows the report’s existing type classification and makes no separate estimates.

• 2025 Annual Statistics on Medical Care Institutions and Services (114 年醫事機構服務量統計年報, 2025 data) (in Chinese): published July 31, 2026.
• Download the official annual report Excel file (in Chinese): facility counts use Table 2, “Healthcare facilities by year, by type” (including the number of dental hospitals); city and county counts use Table 20, “Healthcare facilities by city/county”; workforce figures use Table 5, “Medical personnel practicing in healthcare facilities by year”.
• Annual data from the survey of medical institutions and services (in Chinese): earlier editions can be checked here.

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