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Population
65,068,149
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2007 est.)
Age structure
0-14 years: 21.6% (male 7,195,750/female 6,870,858)
15-64 years: 70.1% (male 22,547,238/female 23,092,881)
65 years and over: 8.2% (male 2,437,640/female 2,923,782) (2007 est.)
Median Age
total: 32.4 years
male: 31.6 years
female: 33.2 years (2007 est.)
Population growth rate
0.663% (2007 est.)
Birth rate
13.73 births/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Death rate
7.1 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Net migration rate
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.)
Sex ratio
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.047 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.976 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.834 male(s)/female
total population: 0.979 male(s)/female (2007 est.)
Infant mortality rate
total: 18.85 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 20.13 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.51 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.)
Life expectancy at birth
total population: 72.55 years
male: 70.24 years
female: 74.98 years (2007 est.)
Total fertility rate
1.64 children born/woman (2007 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate
1.5% (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS
570,000 (2003 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths
58,000 (2003 est.)
Major infectious diseases
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and plague are high risks in some locations
animal contact disease: rabies
water contact disease: leptospirosis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified among birds in this country or surrounding region; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2007)
Nationality
noun: Thai (singular and plural)
adjective: Thai
Ethnic groups
Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
Religions
Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.6%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.1% (2000 census)
Languages
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92.6%
male: 94.9%
female: 90.5% (2000 census)


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