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 Thailand
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All information: United States
 
Area:513,120 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:68,864,000 323,128,000
Official language:Thai English

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Politik

Government form:Constitutional monarchy (interim military-government since May 2014) Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1350 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Bangkok Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:134.2 32.9
Life expectancy males:71.6 years 76.3 years
Life expectancy females:79.1 years 81.2 years
Birthrate:10.33 ‰ 12.40 ‰
Deathrate:7.87 ‰ 8.40 ‰
Migrationrate:0.00 % 3.90 %


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
Visit also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life (in german only)
 
Political stability:55 74
Civil rights:35 99
Health:44 70
Security:49 67
Climate:43 65
Cost of Living:56 33
Popularity:71 92


Economy

Currency:Thai Baht (1 THB = 100 Satang) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:1.1 % 4.4 %
Inflation rate:0.19 % 1.26 %
Cost of Living:59.80 % 110.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:28.70 % 43.80 %
Average income:4,992 € 50,323 €
corruption index:37 (bad) 75 (good)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:360,296 Mio €5.23 M € 16,486,213 M €51.02 M €
Gross national product:343,714 Mio €4.99 M € 16,260,820 M €50.32 M €
Exported goods:249,567 M €3.62 M € 1,954,564 M €6.05 M €
Imported goods:195,779 M €2.84 M € 2,401,403 M €7.43 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:180,053 km2.61 km 6,586,610 km20.38 km
Railways:4,127 km0.06 km 293,564 km0.91 km
Waterways:4,000 km0.06 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:3630.005 3930.001
Airports:1010.001 13,5130.042


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:168.30 bn kWh2.44 m kWh 3,911.00 bn kWh12.10 m kWh
Energy production:167.90 bn kWh2.44 m kWh 4,088.00 bn kWh12.65 m kWh
Energy export:2.27 bn kWh32,920.19 kWh 9.70 bn kWh30,003.64 kWh
Energy imports:14.41 bn kWh209,254.50 kWh 80.66 bn kWh249,622.82 kWh
CO2 emissions:316.21 m t4,591.88 t 5.25 bn t16,260.70 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+66 +1
Internet domain:.th .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:4,706,00068 121,530,000376
Mobile phones:116,606,0001,693 416,684,0001,290
Internet server:3,399,00049 505,000,0001,563
Internet users:32,713,589475 246,147,996762



Climate

Detailed info for: Thailand and United States

Daytime temperatures:32.8 °C 18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:23.3 °C 7.2 °C
Water temperature:27.5 °C 19.1 °C
Relative humidity:77 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:23 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:109.2 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:6.6 7.2


Native languages

English:n/a 82.1 %
Thai:52.6 % n/a
Lao:23.4 % n/a
Chinese:12.3 % 0.6 %
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Malay:3.6 % n/a
Burmese:1.3 % n/a
Khmer:1.3 % n/a
Kuy:1.1 % n/a
German:n/a 0.7 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
other:4.4 % 3.0 %


Religions

Buddhism:93.6 % 0.7 %
Christianity:1.2 % 78.5 %
Islam:4.9 % 0.6 %
Jewry:n/a 1.7 %
nondenominational:0.1 % n/a
other:0.2 % 18.5 %