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By Nop Meechukhun

 

National – The Royal Gazette, January 19th, reported the total Thai population at a total of 66,171,439 with the highest population in Bangkok with about 5.5 million people.

 

According to the announcement on the Ratchakitcha website, there are a total of 66,171,439 people throughout the country.

 

Of that, 65,197,783 are Thai nationals while the remaining 973,656 are non-Thai nationals. The highest number of people in the country is recorded in Bangkok with 5,527,994 people.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/01/19/over-66-million-people-currently-living-in-thailand-as-of-2022-the-royal-gazette-reports/

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

Of that, 65,197,783 are Thai nationals while the remaining 973,656 are non-Thai nationals. 

Under 1 million Non Thai? A bit surprised as I would have thought the Non-Thai number to be a bit higher

So the Thai population is reducing ? I think there is some work to do for us..............

Vaccination grade is suddenly better

2 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

So the Thai population is reducing ? I think there is some work to do for us..............

Done my bit, time for others to get stuck in ????

3 hours ago, meechai said:

65,197,783 are Thai nationals

But how many get a vote?

The actual numbers might even be a bit lower.  Think of all the Thais that are in the House Registration (Tabien Bahn) but live overseas.

Make that 973,654 my mate and  his Farang  Mrs... leave tomorrow

And the Tourism Authority of Thailand  have verified that figure  using their own computer!

the digit will be 66,001 millions the day  i move to thailand!

The data set they're using is from 2011. The Worldometer figure as of today is over 70m total living in Thailand.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/thailand-population/

 

As for the migrant population, last UN figures were for 2018. Total just under 5m.

 

https://thailand.un.org/en/50831-thailand-migration-report-2019

 

The above is a huge pdf file, but on page 11 you'll see the breakdown of the immigrant population back then.

The Migrant number of close to 5 Million has been well publicized over the course of time.

Less than 1 Million is a nonsense.

1 hour ago, Cake Monster said:

The Migrant number of close to 5 Million has been well publicized over the course of time.

Less than 1 Million is a nonsense.

A lot of the data is questionable I guess, given the current situation. Many migrant workers went home over the last 2 years. Many seem to be keen to come back to work but are finding it hard work just getting in to Thailand. Still no clear route. 

How do they know when they never conduct a Census ?   There are a lot of 'Invisible' people in Thailand including thousands of Thai Nationals who don't want to be found.   Looks to me like another number taken from the TAT files !

8 hours ago, Excel said:

Done my bit, time for others to get stuck in ????

Means I have to do it alone.????

"973,656 are non-Thai nationals"

And how many out of that figure are from Mainland China?

23 hours ago, bradiston said:

The data set they're using is from 2011. The Worldometer figure as of today is over 70m total living in Thailand.

 

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/thailand-population/

 

As for the migrant population, last UN figures were for 2018. Total just under 5m.

 

https://thailand.un.org/en/50831-thailand-migration-report-2019

 

The above is a huge pdf file, but on page 11 you'll see the breakdown of the immigrant population back then.

Most sites use 68-69+million, and more believable, IMO  Surprised about the 1 m non Thais, though not sure what they are using.  Before Imm stated 1/2 mill on long term visas, and would have thought they'd have the accurate # for obvious reason.

6 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Most sites use 68-69+million, and more believable, IMO  Surprised about the 1 m non Thais, though not sure what they are using.  Before Imm stated 1/2 mill on long term visas, and would have thought they'd have the accurate # for obvious reason.

The majority of overseas immigrants here are not us expats, who constitute only a very small percentage of the total, but the workforces from Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar, and disparate groups such as hill tribe people, who only get a pink card. From the 2018 UN document, there were nearly 5m all told. Probably shrunk significantly over the last 2 years. Now there's a chronic labour shortage here.