Statistical Yearbook Thailand 2015

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 2015 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 21 statistical sectors. They are Demographic, Population and Housing Statistics, Labour Statistics, Education Statistics, Religion, Art and Culture Statistics, Health Statistics, Social Security Statistics, Gender Statistics, Household Income and Expenditure Statistics, Justice, Security, Political and Public Administration Statistics, National Accounts, Agriculture and Fishery Statistics, Industrial Statistics, Energy Statistics, Trade and Price Statistics, Transport and Logistics Statistics, Information Communication and Technology Statistics, Tourism and Sports Statistics, Finance, Banking and Insurance Statistics, Fiscal Statistics, Science, Technology and Innovation Statistics and Natural Resources and Environment 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 2015 Statistical Yearbook. We look forward to your continued cooperation so that all related users can continue to benefit in using statistical data.