Statistical Yearbook Thailand 2013

PREFACE National Statistical Office; NSO, as a central statistical agency, has been playing major roles to manage and administrate the system of statistics and information of the country, to serve all sectors statistics and information for being used as guiding light for the country development. Thus NSO has been publishing “Statistical Yearbook of Thailand” in order to collect and compile major statistics regarding economic, social and environment. Those statistics were from both censuses and surveys conducted by NSO as well as from other statistical units of Line Ministries. This publication has been disseminated to all users, such as government and private sectors, education institutes and general public, including international organs. These statistical data could be used to guide policy planning and formulation, decision making, research and as references purposes. The 2013 Statistical Yearbook consists of two parts of content; the first part is the graphic of the map of Thailand, basic information and major indicators as an overview. Then the second part comprises statistical information, in form of statistical tables and charts. The detailed content is divided into 23 statistical sectors. They are Demographic, Population and Housing Statistics, Labour Statistics, Education, Training, Religious and Culture Statistics including Mass Communication Statistics, Health Statistics, Social Security Statistics, Gender Statistics, Household Income and Expenditure and their Distribution Statistics, Other Social, Demographic and Related Statistics, National Accounts, Agricultural, Forestry and Fishery Statistics, Industrial Statistics, Energy Statistics, Distributive and International Trade Statistics, Transport Statistics, Communication Statistics including Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Statistics, Tourism Statistics, Money, Finance, Insurance and Balance of Payment Statistics, Fiscal Statistics, Price Statistics, Statistics of Science, Technology and Patents, Other Economic Statistics, Natural Resources and Environment Statistics, Meteorology Statistics. In addition, all sources were identified in an introductory part of each chapter and in footnotes to statistical tables for further information. In this regard, NSO would like to express our gratitude to all government agencies and state enterprises for their kind support in providing statistical data for this 2011 Statistical Yearbook. We look forward to your continued cooperation so that all related users can continue to benefit in using statistical data.