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Thailand

71,619,863

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-48.15K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+13.7%from 63.01M
Life expectancy76.6 years2024
Fertility rate1.20births per woman · 2024
Urban population62.8%2025
RegionEast Asia & PacificUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Thailand is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1414.4%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6469.6%Working-age population
Ages 65+16.0%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate8.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-0.9births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+27.51Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Thailand look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 66.38M in 2050—7.4% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202471.67M
  2. 205066.38M
  3. 210045.56M
Median age in 205048.6years
Births in 2050461.37Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050917.33Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.7years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196026.85M
  2. 197035.95M
  3. 198045.65M
  4. 199054.74M
  5. 200063.01M
  6. 201068.58M
  7. 202071.64M
  8. 202571.62M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryValidated dataChecked 9/24/2026

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