Taiwan TWN
Tier 2 · Advanced Tech Economies
Taiwan stands at 27.1 of 100 on the Optional Work Index, the point at which paid work becomes economically optional1.
Supply measures whether machines can do the work; demand measures whether people can afford to stop. The index is their geometric mean, computed by the same method used for every country.
27.1 / 100
0 · pre-automation baseline100 · work optional
35.6
Supply
can machines do the work
20.7
Demand
can people afford to stop
Data coverage high · 4/5 inputs from primary data (supply 3/3, demand 1/2)
Components
Five sub-indices, fixed weights within each side
Supply
Capacity for machines to do the work35.6
AI Capabilityweight 40%
50.1
Humanoid Roboticsweight 31%
42.9
Labor Market Shiftweight 29%
7.7
AI system progress toward human-level and beyond cognitive performance.
Demand
Capacity for people to stop working20.7
Economic Abundanceweight 60%
modelled — no primary TWN data
7.9
Wealth Distributionweight 40%
39.8
Whether the cost of necessities (healthcare, housing, food, transport, education) is falling enough that work is less required.
Data sources for TWN
which series filled each input
ai_frontier— epoch globalai_adoption— none missingrobot_density— ifr ifrautomation_gap— none missingunemployment— ilo wbproductivity— none missingjob_openings— none missingcost_healthcare— none missingcost_food— none missingcost_housing— none missingcost_transport— none missingcost_education— none missingbs_electricity— none missingbs_water— none missingbs_sanitation— none missingbs_ict_affordability— none missingincome_floor— ilo wbinequality— none missinglabor_income_share— none missing
Calculated 2026-07-17 15:00:18 UTC · version 3.1.0