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Country File
AREA: 513,120 sq km
POPULATION: 66.72 million
CURRENCY: Thai baht (THB)
AVG. EXCHANGE RATE:
$1=29 THB
GDP REAL GROWTH: 7.8%
GDP PER CAPITA (PPP):
$8,700
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE: 1.2%
INFLATION (CPI): 3.3%
MAJOR INDUSTRIES: Tourism,
Textiles and garments,
Agricultural processing,
Beverages, Tobacco,
Cement, Light manufacturing
(such as jewelry and electric
appliances, computers
and parts, integrated
circuits, furniture, plastics,
automobiles and automotive
parts)
MAJOR EXPORTS: Textiles and
footwear, Fishery products,
Rice, Rubber, Jewelry,
Automobiles, Computers and
electrical appliances
MAJOR IMPORTS: Capital goods, Intermediate goods and raw materials,
Consumer goods, Fuels
EXPORTS: $191.3 billion
IMPORTS: $156.9 billion
MAIN EXPORT MARKETS (% SHARE): U.S. (10.9%), China (10.6%), Japan
(10.3%), Hong Kong (6.2%), Australia (5.6%), Malaysia (5%)
MAIN IMPORT MARKETS (% SHARE): Japan (18.7%), China (12.7%),
Malaysia (6.4%), U.S. (6.3%), UAE (5%), Singapore (4.3%), South
Korea (4.1%) |