This statistic shows the biggest cities in Thailand in 2019. In 2019, approximately 5.67 million people lived in Krung Thep, i.e. Bangkok, making it the biggest city in Thailand.

Thailand TH: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 29.142 % in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 28.917 % for 2016. Thailand TH: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 35.514 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2017, with 58 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 40.429 % in 1969 and a record low of 28.054 % in 2010. Thailand TH: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Thailand – Table TH.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.; ; United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.; Weighted average;

In 2023, Bangkok had the highest population density of all provinces in Thailand, with almost 3,500 people per square kilometer. Nonthaburi followed second, with a population density of around 2,100 people per square kilometer.

This statistic shows the degree of urbanization in Thailand from 2013 to 2023. Urbanization means the share of urban population in the total population of a country. In 2023, 53.61 percent of Thailand's total population lived in urban areas and cities. The migration of the Thai population to metropolises and urban areas Thailand is in the midst of transforming itself from a predominantly rural country to an increasingly urban one. Today, over half the population lives in urban areas, which is much higher than most bordering countries. While Thailand's urbanization rates are still low compared to more developed nations - which can reach levels over 90 percent, this transformation in Thailand is still significant, especially as most of this growth occurs and is expected to occur in the Krung Thep area, better known as Bangkok, capital and largest city in Thailand. Krung Thep is now home to more than 5.6 million people. The number of tourists and overnight visitors to the city is also on the rise, and Bangkok is usually among the ten most visited cities in each year, with over 20 million visitors in 2023. This development will place increasing demands on urban infrastructure, as the city grows and grows. The second largest city in Thailand is Nonthaburi, but it only has around one quarter of a million inhabitants, a significant difference. Despite the country’s rural but shifting population, Thailand's fertility rate is low and well below the natural replacement rate, and population growth in general is thus only minimal. Interestingly, despite this migration, agriculture has retained a stable share in GDP generation, actually increasing slightly over time, while the contributions of industry and services to GDP have also remained relatively the same.

This dataset is about cities in Thailand, featuring 7 columns including city, continent, country, latitude, and longitude. The preview is ordered by population (descending).

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Chiang Mai, Thailand metro area from 1950 to 2025. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035.

The number of households in Thailand was forecasted to be approximately 18.2 million in 2021, compared to 18 million households in 2016.

Rural Population in Thailand
Thailand’s rural population mostly resides in the rice-growing regions, i.e. the central, northeastern, and northern regions. In 2018, approximately 34.75 million people lived in the rural area, which accounted for 50 percent of the total population in Thailand. Nevertheless, Thailand’s rural population is declining as it has been over the past nine years.

Urban population in Thailand
As Thailand has transformed into a more industrially orientated country, urban living and city life seemed to follow the development. Thai rural inhabitants started to migrate to urban areas and bigger cities such as Bangkok, as there were more job opportunities. Therefore, urbanization became a reality in Thailand, with the urban population accounting for 50.05 percent of the total population in 2019.

Abstract

IPUMS-International is an effort to inventory, preserve, harmonize, and disseminate census microdata from around the world. The project has collected the world's largest archive of publicly available census samples. The data are coded and documented consistently across countries and over time to facillitate comparative research. IPUMS-International makes these data available to qualified researchers free of charge through a web dissemination system.

The IPUMS project is a collaboration of the Minnesota Population Center, National Statistical Offices, and international data archives. Major funding is provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Additional support is provided by the University of Minnesota Office of the Vice President for Research, the Minnesota Population Center, and Sun Microsystems.

Geographic coverage

National coverage

Analysis unit

Households

UNITS IDENTIFIED: - Dwellings: No - Vacant units: No - Households: Yes - Individuals: Yes - Group quarters: Yes - Special populations: No

UNIT DESCRIPTIONS: - Dwellings: Buildings or construction structures used for living, including boats, boathouses, and cars. - Households: A household is one person or many persons living in the same house, and these persons together seek for, consume, and utilize all facilities for a living, regardless of whether they are relatives or not. - Group quarters: Households that consist of several people living together because of certain rules or regulations indicating that these people must live together, or needed to stay together for their own benefit; these include institutions and other collective households. These people may or may not eat together.

Universe

All the population whose usual places of residence were in Thailand on the Census day, including Thai citizens and foreigners who had lived in Thailand for 3 months or more; all population whose usual places of residence were in Thailand but on the Census day were away for military training, sailing, or temporarily travelling abroad; and Thai civil/military/diplomatic officers and their families who normally have their offices in foreign countries.

Kind of data

Census/enumeration data [cen]

Sampling procedure

MICRODATA SOURCE: National Statistical Office

SAMPLE DESIGN: Population characteristics were obtained for persons in every household while household characteristics were collected for every household in municipal areas but only for 25% of households in villages.

SAMPLE UNIT: Household

SAMPLE FRACTION: 2%

SAMPLE SIZE (person records): 772,169

Mode of data collection

Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument

Information on household and population characteristics were collected using Enumeration Form 2, which consists of four parts. Part 1 identifies location of the household. Part 2 contains population questions that are asked of the individuals living in the household. Part 3 collects information on temporary visitors with usual residence elsewhere. Part 4 contains housing questions that are asked of private households only.

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Suphan Buri, Thailand metro area from 1950 to 2025. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035.

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand metro area from 1950 to 2025. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035.

The US Census Bureau defines Asian as "A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. This includes people who reported detailed Asian responses such as: Indian, Bangladeshi, Bhutanese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Malaysian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Other Asian specified, Other Asian not specified.". 2020 Census block groups for the Wichita / Sedgwick County area, clipped to the county line. Features were extracted from the 2020 State of Kansas Census Block Group shapefile provided by the State of Kansas GIS Data Access and Support Center (https://www.kansasgis.org/index.cfm).Change in Population and Housing for the Sedgwick County area from 2010 - 2020 based upon US Census. Census Blocks from 2010 were spatially joined to Census Block Groups from 2020 to compare the population and housing figures. This is not a product of the US Census Bureau and is only available through City of Wichita GIS. Please refer to Census Block Groups for 2010 and 2020 for verification of all data Standard block groups are clusters of blocks within the same census tract that have the same first digit of their 4-character census block number. For example, blocks 3001, 3002, 3003… 3999 in census tract 1210.02 belong to Block Group 3. Due to boundary and feature changes that occur throughout the decade, current block groups do not always maintain these same block number to block group relationships. For example, block 3001 might move due to a change in the census tract boundary. Even if the block is no longer in block group 3, the block number (3001) will not change. However, the identification string (GEOID20) for that block, identifying block group 3, would remain the same in the attribute information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles because block identification strings are always built using the decennial geographic codes.Block groups delineated for the 2020 Census generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. Local participants delineated most block groups as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP). The Census Bureau delineated block groups only where a local or tribal government declined to participate or where the Census Bureau could not identify a potential local participant.A block group usually covers a contiguous area. Each census tract contains at least one block group and block groups are uniquely numbered within census tract. Within the standard census geographic hierarchy, block groups never cross county or census tract boundaries, but may cross the boundaries of county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian areas.Block groups have a valid range of 0 through 9. Block groups beginning with a zero generally are in coastal and Great Lakes water and territorial seas. Rather than extending a census tract boundary into the Great Lakes or out to the 3-mile territorial sea limit, the Census Bureau delineated some census tract boundaries along the shoreline or just offshore.

Nong Kung Si is a city. It is in Thailand and has a population of 17,001 people.

Chart and table of population level and growth rate for the Lampang, Thailand metro area from 1950 to 2025. United Nations population projections are also included through the year 2035.

This theme includes all OpenStreetMap features in this area matching ( Learn what tags means here ) :

tags['place'] IN ('isolated_dwelling', 'town', 'village', 'hamlet', 'city')

Features may have these attributes:

• name
• name:en
• place
• population
• is_in
• source
• name:th

This dataset is one of many "https://data.humdata.org/organization/hot">OpenStreetMap exports on HDX. See the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team website for more information.

This dataset is about countries and is filtered where the country includes Thailand, featuring 4 columns: capital city, continent, country, and currency. The preview is ordered by population (descending).

TH：最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比在12-01-2017达29.142%，相较于12-01-2016的28.917%有所增长。TH：最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比数据按年更新，12-01-1960至12-01-2017期间平均值为35.514%，共58份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-1969，达40.429%，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-2010，为28.054%。CEIC提供的TH：最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于全球数据库的泰国 – Table TH.World Bank.WDI：人口和城市化进程统计。

The statistic above provides information about the homicide rate for the most populous cities in selected Asian countries in 2012. In 2012, the homicide rate in Bangkok, Thailand stood at 2.7 per 100,000 population

In 2023, the average monthly income per household in Thailand was highest in Bangkok and the greater Bangkok area, which amounted to approximately 39,100 Thai baht. In that year, the average monthly income per household across Thailand was over 29,000 Thai baht. Bangkok is the main urban hub in Thailand, with the highest population density compared to other regions in the country.  Income inequality and the migration of workers within the country Income inequality in Thailand is among the highest in Southeast Asia, and particularly high in northeast Thailand. As a result of this factor, people are constantly moving to Bangkok and its vicinity, as well as the Eastern Region with its industries, for better job opportunities and higher wages. In 2023, the number of registered domestic migrations in the country amounted to almost three million. Despite the inequality of income in the country, Thailand has almost no unemployment at all. The employment rate in Thailand has remained steady in the past decade, with less than one percent of the total population unemployed. Monthly household expenses in Thailand In recent years the disposable incomes of many Thai households have taken a hit. In 2023, the average monthly expenditure per household in Thailand was around 26,700 Thai baht per month. The monthly household expenditure varies across different regions, with Bangkok and the greater Bangkok area generally having higher expenses compared to other regions in the country. The largest portion of household expenditures are mainly used for food, followed by housing, transportation, and personal expenses. At the same time, Thailand’s household debt has been increasing constantly, reaching more than 16 trillion Thai baht in 2023.

South Korea's capital Seoul had the highest cost of living among megacities in the Asia-Pacific region in 2024, with an index score of 70.3. Japan's capital Tokyo followed with a cost of living index score of 57.4. AffordabilityIn terms of housing affordability, Chinese megacity Shanghai had the highest rent index score in 2024. Affordability has become an issue in certain megacities across the Asia-Pacific region, with accommodation proving expensive. Next to Shanghai, Japanese capital Tokyo and South Korean capital Seoul boast some of the highest rent indices in the region. Increased opportunities in megacitiesAs the biggest region in the world, it is not surprising that the Asia-Pacific region is home to 28 megacities as of January 2024, with expectations that this number will dramatically increase by 2030. The growing number of megacities in the Asia-Pacific region can be attributed to raised levels of employment and living conditions. Cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, and Beijing have become economic and industrial hubs. Subsequently, these cities have forged a reputation as being the in-trend places to live among the younger generations. This reputation has also pushed them to become enticing to tourists, with Tokyo displaying increased numbers of tourists throughout recent years, which in turn has created more job opportunities for inhabitants. As well as Tokyo, Shanghai has benefitted from the increased tourism, and has demonstrated an increasing population. A big factor in this population increase could be due to the migration of citizens to the city, seeking better employment possibilities.