Country comparison: India / Thailand

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for India and Thailand. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	India	Thailand
Region:	South Asia	Southeast Asia
Area:	3,287,259 km²	513,120 km²
National language:	Hindi	Thai
Government form:	Federal parliamentary republic	Constitutional monarchy (interim military-government since May 2014)
Independent since:	1947 AD	1350 AD
Capital:	New Delhi	Bangkok

Population

Details for India and Thailand

	India	Thailand
Population:	1,407,564,000	71,601,000
Inhabitants/km²:	428.2	139.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 69 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 72 years	Ø 84 years
Average age:	Ø 28.7 years	Ø 39.0 years
Birth rate:	16.57 ‰	9.18 ‰
Death rate:	7.35 ‰	7.26 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.16 ‰	-0.13 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	India	Thailand
Political stability:	53	64
Civil rights:	45	39
Health:	36	71
Climate:	62	46
Cost of Living:	45	55
Popularity:	49	42

Economy

Details for India and Thailand

	India	Thailand
Currency:	Indian rupee (1 INR = 100 Paise)	Thai baht (1 THB =100 Satang)
Unemployment rate:	6.0 %	1.4 %
Inflation rate:	5.13 %	1.23 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	28.80 %	38.40 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	49.70 %	29.50 %
Average income:	2,150 US$	7,090 US$
Corruption index:	60 (bad)	65 (bad)

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,176,295 M US$	2.26 M US$	505,947 M US$	7.07 M US$
Gross national product:	3,023,424 M US$	2.15 M US$	507,857 M US$	7.09 M US$
Exported goods:	643,080 M US$	0.46 M US$	296,002 M US$	4.13 M US$
Imported goods:	717,119 M US$	0.51 M US$	295,780 M US$	4.13 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for India and Thailand

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	6,371,847 km	4.53 km	180,053 km	2.51 km
Railways:	68,155 km	0.05 km	4,127 km	0.06 km
Waterways:	14,500 km	0.01 km	4,000 km	0.06 km
Harbours:	1,801	0.0013	839	0.0117
Passenger airports:	82	0.0001	32	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for India and Thailand

	IND: total	per 1000 inh.	THA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	1.137 tn kWh	807,778.64 kWh	187.70 bn kWh	2.62 m kWh
Energy production:	1.386 tn kWh	984,680.03 kWh	181.50 bn kWh	2.53 m kWh
Energy export:	5.15 bn kWh	3,658.80 kWh	2.27 bn kWh	31,661.52 kWh
Energy imports:	5.62 bn kWh	3,990.58 kWh	19.83 bn kWh	276,951.04 kWh
CO2 emissions:	2.46 bn t	1,745.07 t	267.09 m t	3,730.25 t

Telecommunication

Details for India and Thailand

	India	Thailand
International dialing:	+91	+66
Internet domain:	.in	.th

	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.	THA total	THA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	20,052,162	14	5,003,000	70
Mobile cellulars:	1,153,709,832	820	116,294,000	1624
Internet server:	6,746,000	5	3,399,000	47
Internet users:	599,165,884	426	54,452,354	760
Broadband Internet:	27,560,000	20	13,129,216	183

Healthcare system

Details for India and Thailand

	India	Thailand
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.53	2.10
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.78	0.81
Diabetes:	10.4 %	7.0 %
Malaria:	5.3 %	0.4 %
Tuberculosis:	2.10 ‰	1.43 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	83.0 %
Smokers:	27.2 %	22.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: India and Thailand

	India	Thailand
Daytime temperatures:	31.7 °C	33.0 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.2 °C	23.9 °C
Water temperature:	27.3 °C	27.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	78 %
Rain days:	7.9	9.1
Sunshine hours per day:	6.2	6.4

Native languages

	India	Thailand
Thai:	n/a	52.6 %
Hindi:	41.0 %	n/a
Lao:	n/a	23.4 %
Chinese:	n/a	12.3 %
Bengali:	8.1 %	n/a
Telugu:	7.2 %	n/a
Marathi:	7.0 %	n/a
Tamil:	5.9 %	n/a
Urdu:	5.0 %	n/a
Gujarati:	4.5 %	n/a
Kannada:	3.7 %	n/a
Malay:	n/a	3.6 %
Malayalam:	3.2 %	n/a
Oriya:	3.2 %	n/a
Punjabi:	2.8 %	n/a
Khmer:	n/a	1.3 %
Assamese:	1.3 %	n/a
Burmese:	n/a	1.3 %
Maithili:	1.2 %	n/a
Kuy:	n/a	1.1 %
other:	5.9 %	4.4 %

Religions

	India	Thailand
Buddhism:	0.7 %	92.0 %
Hinduism:	79.8 %	n/a
Islam:	13.0 %	4.9 %
Christianity:	2.3 %	1.2 %
Sikhism:	1.7 %	0.1 %
Jainism:	0.4 %	n/a
Bahaism:	0.2 %	n/a
Nondenominational:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	1.9 %	1.7 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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