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Thailand - Key Indicators
[Indicators are for year 2019 unless otherwise stated]
Economic Indicators
GDP (PPP current int'l $): 1,339 bn
GDP growth rate: 2.4%
GDP per capita (PPP current int'l $):
18,463
GDP per capita (current US$): 7,808
Unemployment (ILO estimate): 0.8%
Population below poverty line (2015):
7.2%
Ease of Doing Business ranking: 21th (out
of 190)
Procedures to register a business: 5
Cost of business start-up procedures
(% of GNI per capita): 3.0%
Mobile subscriptions / 100
inhabitants: 186
Internet users as % of population: 67%
Broadband subscriptions / 100
inhabitants: 14.52
Demographic Indicators
Population (2020 est.): 69.63m
Population growth rate (2020 est.): 0.3%
Languages: Thai (official, 91%), English is
secondary language of the elite
Urban population: 35.30m (51% of total)
Thailand lage breakdown (2019)
Percentage
25%
23.29%
21.20%
20.22%
20%
16.82%
15%
10%
5%
13.61%
4.85%
0%
0-14
15-29
30-44
45-59
60-74
75+
Age (range)
Healthcare Indicators
INSEAD
Healthcare expenditure as % of GDP
(2017): 3.75%
Healthcare expenditure per capita
(2017, current US$): 247.04 USD
Human Development Index ranking:
77th (out of 189)
Life expectancy at birth: 75.6 years
Infant mortality rate: 8.6 deaths/1,000 live
births
Physician density: 0.81 physicians/1,000
population
Hospital bed density: 2.1 beds/1,000
population
Private sector share of hospital beds
(2018): 27.4%
Major causes of death: 1) Heart disease, 2)
stroke, 3) lower respiratory infection, 4)
Alzheimer's disease, 5) Liver cancer
Sources: CIA Factbook, World Bank
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