This project audits and benchmarks Taiwan's official well-being statistics against the OECD Better Life Index / WISE Current Well-being framework, with the aim of making well-being data more comprehensive and accessible to the Taiwanese public.
Because Taiwan is not an OECD member, its citizens and policymakers lack direct access to the comparative well-being benchmarking that OECD member states routinely use to evaluate national progress.
Data is sourced primarily from Taiwan's DGBAS national statistics, cross-referenced against OECD indicator definitions; where year mismatches or methodological differences exist between the two sources, these are explicitly disclosed, and indicators that cannot be reliably reconciled are marked as missing.
The underlying premise is that GDP and other traditional economic indicators capture only a narrow slice of national progress, and that a fuller, internationally comparable picture of well-being — covering income, housing, health, civic participation, and time use — gives governments a more complete tool for policymaking and for assessing the actual condition of their constituents.