| 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 |
61,230,874 (July 2000 est.)
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS |
| 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 |
65.29 male, 71.97 female (2000 est.) |
| Government Type |
constitutional monarchy |
| Currency |
1 baht (B) = 100 satang |
| GDP (per capita) |
$6,400 (1999 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 |
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