本文旨在推估1910年至1950年台灣製造業個別的國內生產毛額,及編製1910年起至2008年,以1937年為基期的實質國內生產毛額及其平減指數。本文推估結果的二個直接應用,(一是確認戰後台灣工業發展的起點年,而另一是再論台灣的工業升級),及本文結論針對戰後台灣如何邁進成熟經濟國家的綜合觀察,也許有助於說明,本文推估的製造業國內生產毛額似可幫助台灣過去經濟發展某些問題的釐清或真象的瞭解。
This paper attempts to provide an estimation of Taiwan's gross domestic product (GDP) for manufacturing industry from 1910 to 1950, and a series of real GDP with 1937 as the based year from 1910 to 2008. Our estimation maybe helpful to improving the understanding of Taiwan economic development as evidenced by two direct applications of our estimation, concerning with Taiwan industrization and the beginning year of industrial development after World War II.