Taiwan

TWN · 2024 energy mix · renewables 6.3% · fossil fuels 91.4%

Threat reading 12 of 100, classified STABLE. 0 events recorded here in the last seven days, 0 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Oil	35.9%
Coal	31.8%
Gas	23.7%
Solar	2.9%
Nuclear	2.4%
Wind	2.0%
Hydro	0.8%
Other renewables	0.5%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 6.3% and fossil fuels for 91.4%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Taiwan is close to balanced on electricity trade.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 102 significant earthquakes, 18 tsunamis and one significant eruption in or just off Taiwan since 1661.

The deadliest was the 22 May 1782 earthquake (Taiwan: Tainan), which killed 40,000 people.

The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 8.2, on 5 June 1920 (Taiwan).

The most recent entry is the 27 December 2025 magnitude 6.6 earthquake (Taiwan: Wugu), which killed one person.

Across the entries that record a death toll, 57,735 people died.

Date	What	Where	Toll
22 May 1782	earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	40,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
20 April 1935	magnitude 6.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Mialoi	3,276 dead, 17,907 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million
16 July 1935	magnitude 6.5 earthquake	Taiwan: Xiinzhu	2,746 dead, 30,000 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million
20 September 1999	magnitude 7.6 earthquake	Taiwan: Nantou, Taichung, Taizhong	2,297 dead, 8,200 homes destroyed, $14,000 million damage
6 June 1862	magnitude 6.5 earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	2,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
1721	earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	2,000 dead, damage over $25 million
16 March 1906	magnitude 6.8 earthquake	Taiwan: Jiayi	1,258 dead, 6,769 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
3 December 1848	magnitude 6.8 earthquake	Taiwan: Zhanghua	1,001 dead, 20,300 homes destroyed, damage over $25 million
18 December 1867	tsunami (waves to 15 m)	E. China Sea	580 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
18 December 1867	magnitude 7.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Chilung (Keelung)	580 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
February 1845	magnitude 6.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Zhanghua	380 dead, 4,000 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
16 December 1941	magnitude 7.1 earthquake	Taiwan	319 dead, 1,768 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
30 January 1736	magnitude 6.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	260 dead, 500 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
9 August 1792	magnitude 6.8 earthquake	Taiwan: Jiayi, Tainan	252 dead, 14,889 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
28 August 1916	magnitude 6.5 earthquake	Taiwan	180 dead, 614 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
5 November 1904	magnitude 6.3 earthquake	Taiwan: Jiayi	145 dead, 661 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
27 June 1839	magnitude 6.5 earthquake	Taiwan: Jiayi	117 dead, 6,600 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
5 February 2016	magnitude 6.4 earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	117 dead, $700 million damage
13 October 1815	magnitude 6.5 earthquake	Taiwan:	111 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
18 January 1964	magnitude 7.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Tainan	107 dead, 3,000 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
22 October 1951	magnitude 7.3 earthquake	Taiwan	68 dead, 2,382 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
22 October 1951	tsunami (waves to 0.3 m)	Taiwan	68 dead, 2,382 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million
12 April 1910	magnitude 7.8 earthquake	Taiwan	60 dead, 13 homes destroyed, damage under $1 million
4 December 1946	magnitude 6.8 earthquake	Taiwan	58 dead, 700 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million
19 March 1897	magnitude 6.0 earthquake	Taiwan: Yilan	56 dead, 50 homes destroyed, damage under $1 million

These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 121 entries. A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

Our feeds placed no events in Taiwan in the last 30 days. That is a statement about the feeds we read, not proof that nothing happened.

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict	0
Unrest	0
Security	0
Spillover from neighbours	19
Natural hazard	0
Resilience	70

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble. Not every resilience input was measured here: IQ: global average, HDI: global average, EB: global average.

Other countries tracked

Ukraine Gas 34%
United States of America Oil 38%
Uzbekistan Gas 79%
Venezuela Gas 46%
Vietnam Coal 48%
South Africa Coal 72%
United Arab Emirates Gas 47%
Argentina Gas 47%

All countries with a page.

Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.