Thailand
Thailand in numbers
38 measures of Thailand from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending1.04% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$5.57B in 2025
- Military spending per person$84 in 2025
- Military share of state spending4.4% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel455,000 people in 2020
- National power0.79% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.13% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports33 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports15 million TIV in 2024
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Thailand with…
- Thailand vs India
- Thailand vs China
- Thailand vs United States
- Thailand vs Indonesia
- Thailand vs Pakistan
- Thailand vs Nigeria
- Thailand vs Brazil
- Thailand vs Bangladesh
- Thailand vs Russia
- Thailand vs Ethiopia
- Thailand vs Mexico
- Thailand vs Japan
- Thailand vs Egypt
- Thailand vs Philippines
- Thailand vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Thailand vs Vietnam
- Thailand vs Iran
- Thailand vs Türkiye
- Thailand vs Germany
- Thailand vs Tanzania
- Thailand vs United Kingdom
- Thailand vs France
- Thailand vs South Africa
- Thailand vs Italy
- Thailand vs Kenya
- Thailand vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Thailand vs Colombia
- Thailand vs South Korea
- Thailand vs Sudan
- Thailand vs Spain
- Thailand vs Argentina
- Thailand vs Canada
- Thailand vs Saudi Arabia
- Thailand vs Poland
- Thailand vs Malaysia
- Thailand vs Australia
- Thailand vs North Korea
- Thailand vs Netherlands
- Thailand vs Cambodia
- Thailand vs Belgium
- Thailand vs United Arab Emirates
- Thailand vs Papua New Guinea
- Thailand vs Sweden
- Thailand vs Israel
- Thailand vs Austria
- Thailand vs Switzerland
- Thailand vs Laos
- Thailand vs Singapore
- Thailand vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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