Introduction: In order to promote the development of sports industry, foster an excellent business environment for sports industry, actively enhance competitiveness, and establish a superior leisure sports environment for the general public, the "Sports Industry Development Regulation" had already completed the legislative process at the end of March in 2011. It was evident that the development of sport industry with the global trend had become an important direction of sport policy in Taiwan. This study was to track the characteristics and the current status of sport industry by revisiting the total value of production and industrial linkages of sport industry, so that the role of development of sport industry played in Taiwan's economic system could be revealed. Methods: Based on the input-output tables announced by the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) of Executive Yuan in 2006 and 2011 and linked with the reports of industry and business census, this study decomposed the input and output values of sport industry from the input-output tables of 166 industrial sectors in Taiwan, and calculated the industrial linkage and multiplier effects among sport industry (both sport service industry and sport manufacturing industry) and other 19 industries. Results: According to the input-output analysis from the re-organized input-output tables of 21 industrial sectors in Taiwan, the gross domestic sport production (GDSP) increased from NT $ 14.81 billion in 2006 to NT $ 18.52 billion in 2011. The backward linkage effects were higher than the forward linkage effects for the overall sport industry, which indicated that the sport industry had the strong ability to drive the production of upstream industry. The contributions of sport manufacturing industry were superior to the sport service industry in terms of gross domestic production, the employment and the added values. In addition, the employment multiplier, income multiplier and consumption multiplier of the sport manufacturing industry were only less than the general manufacturing industry, which means that the sports industry could create more job opportunities than other industries, and the spread effects of income and consumption expenditure is greater than that of other industries. Conclusion: The sport industry was quite a potential for Taiwan's economic development even though the scales of sport industry was still too small to significantly influence the whole industrial system. The findings of this study could complement the insights that had not been addressed and discussed in previous studies, and they could benefit to the establishment of basic data for the sports industry and to clarify the interdependent relationships and significance between sport industry development and other industries in Taiwan.