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Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand, southeast of Burma

Area:
total area: 514,000 sq km
land area: 511,770 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Wyoming

Land boundaries: total 4,863 km, Burma 1,800 km, Cambodia 803 km, Laos 1,754 km, Malaysia 506 km

Coastline: 3,219 km


People

Population: 60,271,300 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 29% (female 8,545,362; male 8,866,271)
15-64 years: 66% (female 19,733,773; male 20,185,392)
65 years and over: 5% (female 1,636,426; male 1,304,076)

Population growth rate: 1.24% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 18.87 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.48 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 35.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 68.42 years
male: 64.94 years
female: 72.08 years

Total fertility rate: 2.04 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%

Religions: Buddhism 95%, Muslim 3.8%, Christianity 0.5%, Hinduism 0.1%, other0.6% (1991)

Languages: Thai, English the secondary language of the elite, ethnic and regional dialects

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 93%
male: 96%
female: 91%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Kingdom of Thailand
conventional short form: Thailand

Type: constitutional monarchy

Capital: Bangkok

Independence: 1238 (traditional founding date; never colonized)

Constitution: new constitution approved 7 December 1991; amended 10 June 1992


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $355.2 billion

National product real growth rate: 8%

National product per capita: $5,970

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5%

Unemployment rate: 3.2%

Electricity:
capacity: 12,810,000 kW
production: 56.8 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 909 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.