Christianity in Taiwan

Ethnic group Christianity in Taiwan臺灣基督教Catholic Church of WanchinTotal population7% (Pew Research Center, 2023)LanguagesChinese languages (Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka)Formosan languages, Malayo-Polynesian languages (Tao, Filipino, Indonesian)Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, EnglishReligionCatholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Nontrinitarianism Christianity in Taiwan constituted 7% of the population, according to Taiwan's 2023 census. Christians on the island included approximately 700,000 Protestants and 300,000 Catholics. Christians in Taiwan mostly consist of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples. Due to the small number of practitioners, Christianity has not influenced the island nation's Han Chinese culture in a significant way. A few individual Christians have devoted their lives to charitable work in Taiwan, becoming well known and well liked—for example, George Leslie Mackay (Presbyterian) and Nitobe Inazō (Methodist, later Quaker). A few presidents of Taiwan have been Christians, including Republic of China's founder Sun Yat-sen (Confucian-Congregationalist), Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (both Buddhist-Methodists), and Lee Teng-hui (Presbyterian). Ma