Thailand 
Facts
Population:
61,797,751
note:
estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
23.43% (male 7,380,273; female 7,099,506)
15-64 years:
69.95% (male 21,304,051; female 21,921,383)
65 years and over:
6.62% (male 1,796,325; female 2,296,213) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
0.91% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
16.63 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
7.54 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.97 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.78 male(s)/female
total population:
0.97 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
30.49 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
68.86 years
male:
65.64 years
female:
72.24 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
1.87 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
2.15% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
755,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
66,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Thai (singular and plural)
adjective:
Thai
Ethnic groups:
Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
Religions:
Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%, other 0.6% (1991)
Languages:
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
93.8%
male:
96%
female:
91.6% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $413 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
4.2% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $6,700 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13%
industry:
40%
services:
47% (1999)
Population below poverty line:
12.5% (1998 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
2.5%
highest 10%:
37.1% (1992)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
32.6 million (1997 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 54%, industry 15%, services 31% (1996 est.)
Unemployment rate:
3.7% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$19 billion
expenditures:
$21 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
tourism; textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing, such as jewelry; electric appliances and components, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer
Industrial production growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
89.431 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
91.17%
hydro:
3.81%
nuclear:
0%
other:
5.02% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
83.991 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
200 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
1.02 billion kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans
Exports:
$68.2 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
computers and parts, textiles, integrated circuits, rice
Exports - partners:
US 22%, Japan 14%, Singapore 9%, Hong Kong 5%, Netherlands 4%, Malaysia 4%, UK 4% (1999)
Imports:
$61.8 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials, consumer goods, fuels
Imports - partners:
Japan 26%, US 14%, Singapore 6%, China 5%, Malaysia 5%, Taiwan 5% (1999)
Debt - external:
$90 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$131.5 million (1998 est.)
Currency:
baht (THB)
Currency code:
THB
Exchange rates:
baht per US dollar - 43.078 (January 2001), 40.112 (2000), 37.814 (1999), 41.359 (1998), 31.364 (1997), 25.343 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 October - 30 September
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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(Independent), Bangkok
http://www.asiantribune.com/
(Independent, English-language), Bangkok
http://www.bangkokpost.com/
(Independent Webzine), Bangkok
http://www.bangkokrecorder.com/
(Financial), Bangkok
http://www.biz-day.com/
(Entertainment and local news), Chiang Mai
http://www.chiangmainews.com/
(Center-right, mass-circulation), Bangkok
http://www.dailynews.co.th/
International and Asian News
Bangkok
Thailand in the News
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A record-breaking election on Jan. 6, in more ways than one, has entrusted the country in the hands of one party, the Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais). Even before the vote count was over, Thai Rak Thai had won 256 out of 500 seats.
Cross-border drug trade is increasing in Southeast Asia, creating regional strains among the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as well as ratcheting up tensions between Thailand and Burma.
She was crowned a beauty, she married a beast, and now she is Thailand’s counselor to the lovelorn, the confused, and the unsure. Once deemed the third-most beautiful woman in the country, 28-year-old Areewan Jatuthong has become an unofficial spokesperson against domestic violence in a nation where traditional roles still hold sway in many marriages and relationships
Thailand’s border troubles have dominated the local press as tensions with Laos grow. Most dramatically, a cross-border raid into southern Laos from Thailand brought fragile relations between the impoverished communist nation and its increasingly democratic, economically revived neighbor to the fore, though recent flare-ups also occurred over other incidents.
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