Thailand 
Facts
Population: 65,068,149
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 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 21.6% (male 7,195,750/female 6,870,858)
15-64 years: 70.1% (male 22,547,238/female 23,092,881)
65 years and over: 8.2% (male 2,437,640/female 2,923,782) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 0.663% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 13.73 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.1 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.047 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.976 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.834 male(s)/female
total population: 0.979 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 18.85 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 20.13 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.51 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.55 years
male: 70.24 years
female: 74.98 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 1.64 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 1.5% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 570,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 58,000 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Thai (singular and plural)
adjective: Thai.
Ethnic groups: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%.
Religions: Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.6%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.1% (2000 census).
Languages: Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92.6%
male: 94.9%
female: 90.5% (2000 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $596.5 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $9,200 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 10%
industry: 44.9%
services: 45.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 36.41 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 49%
industry: 14%
services: 37% (2000 est.).
Population below poverty line: 10% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 32.4% (1998).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.1% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 2.1% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $40.31 billion
expenditures: $40.34 billion; including capital expenditures of $5 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans.
Industries: tourism, textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such as jewelry and electric appliances, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics, automobiles and automotive parts; world's second-largest tungsten producer and third-largest tin producer.
Industrial production growth rate: 6% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 121.7 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 116.2 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 372 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 3.388 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $123.5 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: textiles and footwear, fishery products, rice, rubber, jewelry, automobiles, computers and electrical appliances.
Exports - partners: US 15.4%, Japan 13.6%, China 8.3%, Singapore 6.9%, Hong Kong 5.6%, Malaysia 5.2% (2005).
Imports: $119.3 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials, consumer goods, fuels.
Imports - partners: Japan 22%, China 9.4%, US 7.4%, Malaysia 6.8%, UAE 4.8%, Singapore 4.6% (2005).
Debt - external: $57.83 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $72 million (2002).
Currency (code): baht (THB).
Exchange rates: baht per US dollar - 37.882 (2006), 40.22 (2005), 40.222 (2004), 41.485 (2003), 42.96 (2002).
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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
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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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