Editing Taiwan (section)

===Ethnic groups===
{{Main|Taiwanese people|Han Taiwanese|Han Chinese|Taiwanese indigenous peoples|Plains indigenous peoples}}
The ROC government reports that 95 percent of the population is ethnically [[Han Chinese]].<ref>{{cite web |title=PEOPLE |url=https://www.taiwan.gov.tw/content_2.php |website=Government Portal of the Republic of China (Taiwan) |access-date=21 February 2024 |language=en |date=21 February 2024}}</ref> There are also 2.4 percent indigenous [[Austronesian languages|Austronesian]] peoples and 2.6 percent new immigrants primarily from China and Southeast Asia.<ref>{{cite book|date=October 2021|title=2021–2022 Taiwan at a Glance|url=https://multilingual.mofa.gov.tw/web/web_UTF-8/MOFA/glance2021-2022/2021-2022%20Taiwan%20at%20a%20Glance%20(English).pdf|publisher= Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China (Taiwan)|page=16|isbn=978-986-5447-31-1}}</ref>

Most [[Han Taiwanese]] are descended from the [[Hoklo people]], native to the coastal regions of southern [[Fujian]], and the [[Hakka people]], native to eastern [[Guangdong]]. Hoklo and Hakka migrants arrived in large numbers during the 17th and 18th century. Descendants of Hoklo now compose approximately 70 percent of Taiwan's population.<ref name="cia-factbook"/> Descendants of Hakka make up about 15 percent of the population. Another minority group, called ''[[waishengren]]'', comprises those who arrived from China during the 1940s or are descended from them.<ref>{{cite book | surname = Yan | given = Margaret Mian | title = Introduction to Chinese Dialectology | publisher = LINCOM Europa | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-3-89586-629-6 | page = 169 }}</ref> [[Genetic history of East Asians|Genetic studies]] indicate that the Han people in Taiwan are closer to southern Chinese compared to northern Chinese and, similar to several other groups of Han Chinese, had mixed with Island [[Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia|Southeast Asians]], likely before their migration to Taiwan.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lo |first=Yun-Hua |year=2021 |title=Detecting Genetic Ancestry and Adaptation in the Taiwanese Han People |url=https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/38/10/4149/5955855 |journal=[[Molecular Biology and Evolution]] |volume=38 |issue=10 |pages=4149–4165 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msaa276 |pmc=8476137 |pmid=33170928 |access-date=18 October 2022 |quote=Consequently, our results showed that the ISEA ancestry in the Taiwanese Han was the outcome of population mixtures rather than shared ancestry, and the admixture event likely occurred before the Taiwanese Han ancestors migrated to Taiwan (fig. 2A). If the admixture occurred only after the Han people migrated to Taiwan, then the observed results would only be seen in the Taiwanese Han. However, similar F3 outcomes were found in the Chinese Han (supplementary fig. S2, Supplementary Material online), supporting that admixture occurred prior to migration to Taiwan. Moreover, signatures of population admixture were also detected between the ancestors of Taiwanese Han and the Ami Austronesian-speaking population using the F4 test; significant positive F4 values were observed when most Sino-Tibetan speaking populations were individually included in the analysis, except for the Chinese Singapore and Chinese Cantonese (table 1). These two populations appear to be genetically closest to the Taiwanese Han among all other Sino-Tibetan speaking populations (fig. 1B), which is consistent with the hypothesis of population mixture before the ancestors of Taiwanese Han migrated to Taiwan.}}</ref>

[[Taiwanese Indigenous peoples]] number about 584,000, and the government recognises 16 groups.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cip.gov.tw/zh-tw/news/data-list/940F9579765AC6A0/index.html?cumid=940F9579765AC6A0|title=原住民人口數統計資料|website=Council of Indigenous Peoples|date=20 December 2010 |language=zh|access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref> The [[Amis people|Ami]], [[Atayal people|Atayal]], [[Bunun people|Bunun]], [[Kanakanavu people|Kanakanavu]], [[Kavalan people|Kavalan]], [[Paiwan people|Paiwan]], [[Puyuma people|Puyuma]], [[Rukai people|Rukai]], [[Saisiyat people|Saisiyat]], [[Saaroa people|Saaroa]], [[Sakizaya people|Sakizaya]], [[Sediq people|Sediq]], [[Thao people|Thao]], [[Truku people|Truku]] and [[Tsou people|Tsou]] live mostly in the eastern half of the island, while the [[Yami people|Yami]] inhabit [[Orchid Island]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/month/m1-04.xls |title=Indigenous People |publisher=MOI Statistical Information Service |date=February 2012 |access-date=14 April 2012 |archive-date=20 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620042553/http://sowf.moi.gov.tw/stat/month/m1-04.xls }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=An Overview of Taiwan's Indigenous Groups |url=http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/indigenous/ |publisher=Government Information Office |year=2006 |access-date=14 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120411063355/http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/culture/indigenous/ |archive-date=11 April 2012}}</ref>