Per capita income was US $ 3,142, the 23rd highest in the world and 63 times higher than the country's mark of US $ 50 in 1949.
遷台卅餘年來，我國成人識字率達百分之九十、每千人擁有二百廿一架電視；至於平均國民生產毛額則為三千一百四十二美元，居世界第廿三位，較民國卅八年的五十美元成長六十三倍。