Area
(km2) |
513,120 |
Population
(2000) |
62,806,000 |
Official
name of the country |
The Kingdom of Thailand |
Region |
East
Asia |
Type
of economy |
Lower
middle income |
Gross
Domestic Product per capita (2000) |
US$1,945 |
Percentage
of population below the national poverty
line (1992) |
13.1 |
Human
Development Index, HDI (1999) |
0.757 |
HDI
rank out of 162 countries (1999) |
66 |
Duration
of compulsory education |
6
years |
School
life expectancy (1999) |
10.8
years |
Illiteracy
rate (2000) |
4.5 |
| Gross
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
• Pre-primary
|
83.48 |
• Primary
|
93.50 |
• Secondary
| 78.95 |
|
• Tertiary |
31.92 |
| Net
Enrolment Rate (1999) |
• Pre-primary
|
70.61 |
• Primary
|
|
• Secondary
|
55.43 |
• Tertiary
|
... |
Sources:
United Nations Population Division and Statistics
Division (www.un.org);
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (www.unesco.org);
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (
www.uis.unesco.org); United Nations Development
Programme (www.undp.org);
The World Bank (www.worldbank.org);
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (www.fao.org)
[.] not available.
Updated version, June 2003. |
