by Natthaphon Sangpolsit

    
BANGKOK (NNT) - The United Nations now ranks Thailand 66th out of 191 countries on its 2021/2022 Human Development Index (HDI), up six places from the previous index issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

 

HDI measures three human development criteria, specifically health, knowledge and standard of living.

 

Thailand received a score of 0.8 on the index, with an average life expectancy of 78.7 years, 15.9 years of expected education and per capita income of 619,000 baht (US$17,000).

 

To qualify for the “very high” development group, a nation must receive a score of 0.8 or higher, which Thailand has managed three years in a row since 2019.

 

According to Deputy Government Spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul, the Human Development Report for 2021/2022 describes multiple uncertainties affecting human development worldwide. The last two years have been devastating for people around the world, as crises such as pandemic and armed conflicts compounded social and economic upheaval, drastic planetary shifts and massive polarization.

 

Among ASEAN members, Singapore received a score of 0.939, with Brunei Darussalam scoring 0.829 and Malaysia scoring 0.803, followed by Indonesia with 0.705, Vietnam with 0.703, the Philippines with 0.699, Laos with 0.607, Cambodia with 0.593 and Myanmar with 0.585.

 

 

Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG220911180502349

 

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1 hour ago, webfact said:

15.9 years of expected education

If the amount of time my daughter actually attends classes or is doing things at school that are not educational - like mothers days, parade day, etc - then I think that is actually about 7 years.

 

 

I think the article meant Human Trafficing Index.

I'm sure that those figures are supplied by the government and i don't trust that who ever passes those data are telling the truth and probably a lot of embellishment of the data is going on there to make Thailand appear to be "very high on the HDI" scale...

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand received a score of 0.8 on the index, with an average life expectancy of 78.7 years, 15.9 years of expected education and per capita income of 619,000 baht (US$17,000).

These figures mean nothing to me. Maybe with the exception of life expectancy, even though these will worsen when the new generation of fatsos will start dying. Otherwise it is 15.9 years of lousy education and average income is meaningless, especially in a developing country that has 4 times more billionaires than a country like France. I witness the development gap between Bangkok and  the North East it is just terrifying. 

 

That kind of stats is just lazy, sloppy sloppy work from UNDP.

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

Thailand 66th out of 191 countries

Nothing wrong with mediocrity, is there!

people don't actually take the UN seriously anymore right ? i mean. 

6 hours ago, webfact said:

and per capita income of 619,000 baht (US$17,000).

????

I would take this  rating with a grain of salt ,Who supplied this information to the UN to put on the index. 

If it is the same people that do All the Numbers here than one for sure knows that those numbers are Fudged .

So with a daily wage of around 350 Baht and working everyday of the year that still only comes to 130,000 Baht.

1 minute ago, roger101 said:

So with a daily wage of around 350 Baht and working everyday of the year that still only comes to 130,000 Baht.

you must be using a different calculator then the ones used by Thai agencies which have a tendency of adding  a couple  zero's to their estimates  555

10 hours ago, roger101 said:

So with a daily wage of around 350 Baht and working everyday of the year that still only comes to 130,000 Baht.

Per capita income in these statistics has nothing to do with real living standards. 

For many years,  Singapore had a per capita incomes much higher than rich Western European countries.  But if you really went to Singapore,  it was very obvious not a rich country.  Bad people said this was all black money from Indonesia, but who would believe such a thing? 

Ireland has recently been another example.  Very high in the statistics of per capita income.  But in reality it's not one of the richest country of Western Europe. The reason here is transfer pricing and other financial shenanigans of multinationals, who for tax reasons want to have their profits counted in Ireland (remember Apple?). Of course,  hardly any Irish has seen any of this money. Its not generated in Ireland and not spent in Ireland - and only this is real living standard. 

On 9/12/2022 at 4:21 AM, webfact said:

Thailand received a score of 0.8 on the index, with an average life expectancy of 78.7 years, 15.9 years of expected education and per capita income of 619,000 baht (US$17,000).

No Thai i know earns that much, about the same as my annual income!

 

The world bank doesn't show such a rosy figure

 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2054387/world-bank-1-5m-fell-into-poverty

 

5 million (8.4%) in poverty in 2021 in Thailand, The world bank assesses poverty as an income of less than 165 baht a day. Try living on that.