Here's The link if you want to wade through the PDF DOWNLOAD HERE

 

Summary

 

There are approximately 73k retirees, 16k spousal, 38k Thai family and 24k resident family


Temporary Stay
Stay with Thais 37,822 stay
Stay with a resident family 23,640 stay
Stay with Thai Spouse 16,276 stay
Retirement 72,969 stay
Special – Investment 45,882 stay and work
Special – Industrial Estates 2,331 stay and work
Special – Petroleum 1,190 stay and work

Total(s) 150,707 stay 49,403 stay and work 200,110 All

My thanks to another place.

Thailand Migration Report 2019.pdf

but but but i always heard there are around one million farang living/working in thailand

6 minutes ago, MalandLee said:

Here's The link if you want to wade through the PDF DOWNLOAD HERE

not working?

2 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

but but but i always heard there are around one million farang living/working in thailand

Title says 'expats', they probably aren't all white.

2 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

but but but i always heard there are around one million farang living/working in thailand

That's funny - so did I????

Just now, BritManToo said:

Title says 'expats', they aren't all white.

what?

2 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

not working?

FIXED

https://thailand.iom.int/sites/default/files/document/publications/Thailand Report 2019_22012019_HiRes.pdf

3 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

but but but i always heard there are around one million farang living/working in thailand

Those are the ones without TM30

10 minutes ago, MalandLee said:

stay and work 200,110 All

but but but how can the Thai economy collapse if we all leave?

1 minute ago, NCC1701A said:

what?

They're alright as far as I'm concerned

I actually believe it is pretty close to the numbers.

Which verifies my belief that the all important expat/falang (in their minds) is not the big driver of the economy here as they think.

In fact, if they all left it would make a small small economic dent.

Sorry to say expats, are basically meaningless this place will survive just fine without them.

1 minute ago, bkk6060 said:

I actually believe it is pretty close to the numbers.

Which verifies my belief that the all important expat/falang (in their minds) is not the big driver of the economy here as they think.

In fact, if they all left it would make a small small economic dent.

Sorry to say expats, are basically meaningless this place will survive just fine without them.

Have to agree - BTW the original link now works (Thanks NCC1701A) - the report is quite comprehensive and VERY heavy reading. But you can verify the figures if you want to.

Shocking only 72,969 of us old worn out retiree's in the world want to retire here despite the young attractions and I suppose that figure just had to end in 69????

the word Sex appears 321 times in this report!

22 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

but but but i always heard there are around one million farang living/working in thailand

Maybe that was before everyone left?

72,000 retirees not very important to the economy at all.  

 ^  not to worry.  I'm doing the work of two old worn out men.

f Figures on visas issued in 2017 were shared by the Thai Immigration Bureau upon request by
the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
 

hey everybody! we ain't shit!

20 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

but but but how can the Thai economy collapse if we all leave?

It won't but a lot of IO's would be out of a job, so be nice to us

5 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

the word Sex appears 321 times in this report!

 I'm at the Box 11.2: Seafood Task Force but cant find the sex yet????
 

I actually believe it is pretty close to the numbers.
Which verifies my belief that the all important expat/falang (in their minds) is not the big driver of the economy here as they think.
In fact, if they all left it would make a small small economic dent.
Sorry to say expats, are basically meaningless this place will survive just fine without them.

The day of the big bwana is over in fact with the tiny pensions they don't even make middle class bangkok..

read chapter three! 

Pattaya is mentioned 10 times. hahaha!

At 73000 old farts going with the 800k option, that would be guaranteed ฿58.4Bn at Thai banks' balance sheets rolling on and off while the minimum yearly (required) balance would be ฿29.2Bn, plenty of cushion to leverage for new household and car debts for locals 

certainly highlights the nonsense "if all expats leave, the country will go broke " a mere drop  in the ocean.

A hell of a lot are living on the wrong visa then - there must be 150,000 in Pattaya alone.

20 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

f Figures on visas issued in 2017 were shared by the Thai Immigration Bureau upon request by
the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
 

What if I am retired staying with my Thai spouse and her resident family? Which box am I in please?

1 hour ago, MalandLee said:

There are approximately 73k retirees, 16k spousal, 38k Thai family and 24k resident family

Op this is a great find and completely changes the paradigm of the importance of retired expats.     

I think TV should make a story out of this report.    

 

actually this report is very damning in many ways. 

word count:

trafficking 239

sex 321

corruption 11

exploitation 126

unregulated 24

 

10 minutes ago, Artisi said:

certainly highlights the nonsense "if all expats leave, the country will go broke " a mere drop  in the ocean.

If the people from the neighbour countries would leave would be a bigger problem. But I wonder why they are not in the 200k expats.

 

 

9 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

What if I am retired staying with my Thai spouse and her resident family? Which box am I in please?

You are in box 1 because she is Thai, 2 because it´s a resident family, 3 because she is your spouse and 4 because you are retired ????

 

I guess it depends on your kind of visa.