According to confirmed data for 2015, Thailand has risen to the 20th line worldwide with a population of 66 million people. Such strength can be compared with France, the UK and Turkey.
The population density in Thailand is over 130 people on 1 square. kilometer. Most of them live in cities. AT In 2010, the total population of Bangkok was over 7 million people (approximately 10% of the country’s population).
On average, Thais live 73-83 years (men 71 years old, women – 76 years old). The population in Thailand is quite young (only 9% older 64 years old) and educated (more than 92% for 2010). At the initial education will have to unlearn 6 years, on average – the same, but necessarily only the first 3 years. To earn a degree bachelor, you need to sit at the desk for another 4 years and 2 years on master’s
So that foreign visitors could not take jobs from the local population, the law has developed a list of prohibited specialties.
The composition of the population of Thailand
Thais occupy most of the entire population Tialanda – 75%. Part of this data includes the Siamese, his kind of too – Thais. You should not be taken seriously by the concept “ethnic Thai” because the Thais are a great ethno-linguistic community, which does not include one group or subgroup.
The population is divided into several ethnic groups, which live in different parts of Ty. What does each subgroup have its own emphasis and their traditions, different from other subgroups.
All Thai subgroups are dominated by the central one, which lives in the most densely populated valley by the Chao Phrai River of Thailand. Read more about the rivers of Thailand.
Ethno-Chinese in Thailand, about 15% of the total population, thus they are the size of the second ethnic group.
Tourists are increasingly interested in semi-nomadic peoples, inhabiting the mountainous terrain in the north of Thailand. All north people are divided into several minorities, differing among themselves clothing, customs and religion.
In the highlands of Thailand, you can most often meet tribes Karen, which includes all the famous women with long necks, as well as lahu, miena, fox, akha. All of them once migrated from China, Myanmar and Tibet.
At one time, they had no choice, or move to Thailand, either go hungry and live literally in the war in your homeland.
