Population of Thailand

Statistical data

According to confirmed data for 2015, Thailand has risen to 20th in the entire world with a population of 66 million. That number can be compared to France, Britain and Turkey.

The density of population in Thailand is more than 130 people per square kilometer. Most of them live in cities. In 2010, the total population of Bangkok was more than 7 million people (approximately 10% of the country’s population).

On average, Thai people live 73-83 years (men 71, women 76). The population in Thailand is quite young (only 9% are over 64) and educated (over 92% as of 2010). You will need 6 years of primary education and the same number of years of secondary education, but only the first 3 are required. To earn a bachelor’s degree, you have to sit behind a desk for another 4 years and 2 years for a master’s.

In order to earn a bachelor’s degree.

To prevent newcomers from taking jobs away from the local population, the law developed lists of prohibited occupations.

The composition of Thailand’s population

The Thais make up the majority of Thailand’s total population, 75%. Part of this data includes the Siamese, a kind of Thais too. One should not take the notion of “ethnic Thais” seriously, as Thais are a large ethno-linguistic community that includes more than one group or subgroup.

The Thais are a large ethno-linguistic community with more than one group or subgroup.

The population is divided into several ethno-subgroups, which live in different parts of Tai. And each subgroup has its own accent and traditions which is different from the other subgroup.

The central subgroup dominates all Thai subgroups, which live in the most populous valley near Thailand’s Chaophrai River. Read more about rivers of Thailand.

Ethnic Chinese in Thailand are about 15% of the total population, thus they consist in size of the second ethnic group.

Tourists are increasingly interested in the semi-nomadic peoples who inhabit the hill country of northern Thailand. The entire northern people are divided into several minorities, differing among themselves in dress, customs and religion.

In the highlands of Thailand, the most common tribes are the Karen, which includes all the famous women with long necks, as well as the Lahu, the Myenas, the Lisu, and the Akha. All of them once migrated from the PRC, Myanmar and Tibet.

At one time they had no choice but to either move to Thailand or starve and live literally at war in their homeland.