| Country (long form) |
Kingdom of Thailand |
| Capital |
Bangkok |
| Total Area |
198,456.51 sq mi
514,000.00 sq km
(slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming) |
| Population |
61,797,751 (July 2001 est.)
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 |
| Estimated Population in 2050 |
70,295,643 |
| Languages |
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects |
| Literacy |
93.8% total, 96.0% male, 91.6% female (1995 est.) |
| Religions |
Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%, other 0.6% (1991) |
| Life Expectancy |
65.64 male, 72.24 female (2001 est.) |
| Government Type |
constitutional monarchy |
| Currency |
1 baht (B) = 100 satang |
| GDP (per capita) |
$6,700 (2000 est.) |
| Industry |
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 |
| Agriculture |
rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans |
| Arable Land |
34% |
| Natural Resources |
tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable land |
