page_title: Demographics of Taiwan
section_title: Foreign residents
hierarchical_section_title: Demographics of Taiwan / Foreign residents
caption_attribution_description: English: Foreign residents in Taiwan. 中文: 在臺外僑國籍分佈 (2007年). 在臺外籍居留者國籍分佈 (2007年).
context_page_description: The population of Taiwan, officially known as the Republic of China, is approximately 23.57 million, spread across a total land area of about 36,000 km²; it is the seventeenth most densely populated country in the world, with a population density of about 651 inhabitants per square kilometer.
  The original population of the island of Taiwan and its associated islands, i.e. not including Kinmen and the Matsu Islands, consists of a variety of Taiwanese indigenous peoples, who speak several Formosan languages. They have been found to share languages with the Austronesian family and mitochondrial DNA contribution with island peoples of Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
  Immigration of Han Chinese to the Penghu islands started as early as the 13th century, while settlement of the main island occurred from the 16th century. It was stimulated by Dutch traders importing workers from Fujian in the 17th century. According to governmental statistics, in the early 21st century, more than 95% of the Republic of China's population are Han Chinese of East Asian ethnicity, while 2.3% are Taiwanese aborigines of Austronesian ethnicity. 85% of Taiwanese have some level of aboriginal ancestry.
caption: Foreign residents in Taiwan
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