How rich is Taiwan?

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Here I tried to make some comparison between taiwan and Philippines.

31% of Taiwanese earn less than NT$30,000; 10% earn over NT$61,000 per month

not regional, but some national stats are here, and we can make some guess on stats for Manila. https://psa.gov.ph/content/2016-occupational-wages-survey-ows uncommon is a subjective word, but this claim can be true, depending on what you mean by “uncommon”. National median wage for workers in Philippines was ~7.5k NTD, but more than 12% of workers got more than 15k NTD in 2016, and mean wages of some kinds of occupations are close to or above 30k NTD. So, more than 30k NTD in Manila is n…