Taiwan’s ratio of convenience stores is second only to South Korea, and barely ahead of Japan in third
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/03
By: Duncan DeAeth, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – According to statistics from 2017, Taiwan possesses the second
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highest ratio of convenience stores per population density of any country in the world.
At the beginning of March 2017, there were 10,662 different convenience stores in Taiwan, with an average of one convenience store for every 2,211 people across the country, according to Statistics Department of the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA).
The only nation with a higher percentage of convenience stores per population is South Korea, which possesses well over 35,000 convenience store location by the end of 2016. There is one convenience store in South Korea for every 1,452 people.
Also in the neighborhood, Japan possesses the third highest amount of stores relative to population density. At the end of 2017, Japan had 56, 374 convenience stores, with one store for every 2,248 people. [FULL STORY]
