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Taipei
overall rank:
2
1998 rank:
5
country:
Taiwan
population:
2,639,169
snapshot: Taipei at a glance |
rank |
overall score |
72 |
2 |
average income US$ |
19,080.02 |
8 |
educational spending 1 |
802.06 |
2 |
ratio of house price to income 2 |
17.59 |
17 |
hospital beds per 1000 people |
8.1 |
7 |
pollution 3 |
55 |
7 |
vehicles per km of road |
1058 |
36 |
criminal cases per 10,000 |
67.6 |
24 |
TV sets per 1,000 people |
414 |
9 |
inflation |
0.09 |
- |
GDP growth |
5.74 |
11 |
unemployment rate |
2.44 |
6 |
average class size |
30.0 |
6 |
life expectancy |
78.4 |
4.0 |
commute time |
28 |
9 |
phones per 1,000 people |
821 |
1 |
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notes:
All monetary values are PPP adjusted
a estimates
b national figure
c officially, land cannot be bought or sold
1 state educational spending, per capita US$
2 average house price divided by average annual income
3 suspended particles, micrograms per cubic meter (µ/m3)
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