Taiwan Gold Card Stats Tracker

Scrape official monthly Employment Gold Card issuance statistics from Taiwan's National Development Council portal — with historical time-series data, field breakdowns, and trend analysis.

What Is the Taiwan Gold Card?

Taiwan's Employment Gold Card is a combined work permit + residence visa for foreign professionals in fields like Finance, Technology, Digital, Education, and more. The program launched in February 2018 and has issued 14,900+ cards to date.

What Data Does This Actor Return?

For each monthly report:

Field	Description
report_date	Last day of the reported month (ISO format)
total_approved	Cumulative cards approved since program launch
currently_valid	Active cards at the snapshot date
valid_by_field	Valid card count across 11 expertise categories
approved_by_field	Cumulative approvals across 11 expertise categories

11 expertise fields tracked: Economy · Science & Technology · Education · Digital · Finance · Culture and Arts · Cross-field · Architectural Design · National Defense · Law · Sport

Trend analysis (when 2+ reports are available):

• Month-over-month growth % for valid cards
• Monthly net new valid cards
• Fastest-growing expertise field

Use Cases

• Immigration lawyers — Track program growth and advise clients on approval trends
• HR departments at Taiwan tech companies — Monitor foreign talent pipeline for recruitment planning
• Relocation consultants — Benchmark program health for expat clients
• Researchers & journalists — Analyze Taiwan's talent attraction policy over time
• Gold Card applicants — Understand which expertise fields are growing fastest

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"latest"	"latest" for the newest report only; "historical" for multiple reports
max_historical_reports	integer	12	Number of past reports to fetch (max: 96, ~8 years of history)
include_trends	boolean	true	Include month-over-month trend analysis

Example Input

Fetch latest report only (free tier):

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "include_trends": false
}

Fetch one year of history with trend analysis:

{
  "mode": "historical",
  "max_historical_reports": 12,
  "include_trends": true
}

Fetch full program history (2018–present):

{
  "mode": "historical",
  "max_historical_reports": 96,
  "include_trends": true
}

Example Output

{
  "scraped_at": "2026-03-26T10:00:00Z",
  "mode": "latest",
  "report": {
    "report_date": "2025-10-31",
    "report_url": "https://goldcard.nat.gov.tw/en/news/2025-oct-cumulative-number-of-employment-gold-card-issuance/",
    "total_approved": 14907,
    "currently_valid": 8129,
    "valid_by_field": {
      "Economy": 3038,
      "Science & Technology": 1407,
      "Education": 1676,
      "Digital": 938,
      "Finance": 398,
      "Culture and Arts": 421,
      "Cross-field": 157,
      "Architectural Design": 37,
      "National Defense": 23,
      "Law": 12,
      "Sport": 22
    },
    "approved_by_field": {
      "Economy": 6528,
      "Science & Technology": 2769,
      "Education": 2417,
      "Digital": 993,
      "Finance": 898,
      "Culture and Arts": 889,
      "Cross-field": 260,
      "Architectural Design": 74,
      "National Defense": 31,
      "Law": 23,
      "Sport": 25
    }
  },
  "trends": {
    "valid_cards_growth_pct": 7.73,
    "total_approved_growth_pct": 23.38,
    "monthly_net_new_valid": 584,
    "fastest_growing_field": "Digital",
    "fastest_growing_field_growth_pct": 35.94,
    "reports_analyzed": 2
  }
}

Data Source

All data is scraped from the official Taiwan Gold Card portal:

• Monthly Data Reports
• Published by Taiwan's National Development Council
• Updated monthly, typically mid-month for the previous month's data

Data is publicly available and does not require authentication.

Notes

• Historical reports go back to February 2018 (program launch) — approximately 96 monthly reports
• Nationality breakdown is published as a chart image on the official site and is not available in structured text format
• Processing times are not published officially; for crowdsourced processing time data, see community forums
• The actor respects the source server with polite crawl delays (1s between requests)