Population Projection for Thailand
2000 - 2025
National Economic and Social
Development Board collected data from Population and Housing Census
2000
, as in the base
year, including analysis on trend and population change in the area of fertility, mortality and
migration for utilizing on making the hypothesis of population composition for its projection in the
future.
Vital Statistics
Its statistics as presented in this chapter were obtained from the Office of
the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Health. It show the data relating to livebirths and
deaths.
According to the Civils Registration Act, birth must be registered at the Registration
Office within
15
days from the date of birth, and deaths must be registered within
24
hours from
the time of death or the time seeing the dead body. The birth and death certificates are prepared
in
3
separated parts that each part is distributed to the informant, the Registration Office and the
Provincial Public Health Office as respectively. The data recorded in the third part will be sent to
the Bureau of Policy and Strategy for the whole kingdom processing. The data on births and
deaths include sex, age of mother, order of birth and causes of death by age group.
Statistics on immigration, naturalization and registration of aliens residing in Thailand are
derived from records of registration as kept by Immigration Bureau, the Royal Thai Police
Headquarters.
Alien:
an alien means any person who is not of Thai nationality under the Nationality Act.
Immigrant:
an immigrant means any alien who enters the Kingdom.
Immigrant quota:
according to the Immigration Act B.E.
2522
, the annual immigration
quota is to be fixed by the Ministry of Interior at not more than one hundred persons for each
country and not more than fifty persons having no nationality.
