| GDP : |
purchasing power parity - $477.5 billion (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Real Growth Rate : |
6.7% (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Per Capita : |
purchasing power parity - $7,400 (2003 est.) |
| GDP - Composition By Sector : |
agriculture: 9.8%
industry: 44%
services: 46.3% (2003) |
| Population Below Poverty Line : |
10.4% (2002 est.) |
| Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : |
lowest 10%: 2.8%
highest 10%: 32.4% (1998) |
| Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : |
1.8% (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force : |
34.9 million (2003 est.) |
| Labor Force - By Occupation : |
agriculture 49%, industry 14%, services 37% (2000 est.) |
| Budget : |
revenues: $24.41 billion
expenditures: $24.01 billion, including capital expenditures of $5 billion (2003 est.) |
| Industries : |
tourism, textiles and garments, agricultural processing, beverages, tobacco, cement, light manufacturing such as jewelry, electric appliances and components, computers and parts, integrated circuits, furniture, plastics, world's second-largest tungsten producer, and third-largest tin producer |
| Industrial Production Growth Rate : |
12.3% (2003 est.) |
| Electricity - Production : |
97.6 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Production by Source : |
fossil fuel: 91.3%
hydro: 6.4%
nuclear: 0%
other: 2.4% (2001) |
| Electricity - Consumption : |
90.91 billion kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Exports : |
200 million kWh (2001) |
| Electricity - Imports : |
350 million kWh (2001) |
| Agriculture - Products : |
rice, cassava (tapioca), rubber, corn, sugarcane, coconuts, soybeans |
| Exports : |
$75.99 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Exports - Commodities : |
computers, office machine parts, transistors, rubber, vehicles (cars and trucks), plastic, seafood (2002) |
| Exports - Partners : |
US 17%, Japan 14.2%, Singapore 7.3%, China 7.1%, Hong Kong 5.4%, Malaysia 4.8% (2003 est.) |
| Imports : |
$65.3 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.) |
| Imports - Commodities : |
capital goods, intermediate goods and raw materials, consumer goods, fuels (2000) |
| Imports - Partners : |
Japan 24.1%, US 9.5%, China 8%, Malaysia 6%, Singapore 4.3%, Taiwan 4.2% (2003 est.) |
| Debt - External : |
$53.75 billion (2003 est.) |
| Economic Aid - Recipient : |
$131.5 million (1998 est.) |
| Currency : |
baht (THB) |
| Currency Code : |
THB |
| Exchange Rates : |
baht per US dollar - 41.4846 (2003), 42.9601 (2002), 44.4319 (2001), 40.1118 (2000), 37.8137 (1999) |
| Fiscal Year : |
1 October - 30 September |
