Population in Thailand

Population Comparison

According to the text book Globalization and Diversity, the key issues are vastly different rates of natural growth, population migration, and urbanization.  Thailand and the United States vary greatly in population statistics.  For example, population of Thailand is sixty-seven million vs the USA having 317 million.  This population number ranks Thailand at 20th in the world.  However, it is only the 51st largest country, while the United States is the 3rd largest.  

The total population of Thailand was recorded as 67 million people in 2013.  Thailand’s total population in 1960 was 27.4 million. The population increased by 145 percent within 50 years. Thailand is at its all-time high at 67 million.  The United States population was recently recorded at 317.3 million people in 2013.  In 1950, the United States Census Bureau recorded the country's population at around 151 million people.  The United States population increased by 47 percent within the past fifty years.  The definition of total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born from a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with current age-specific fertility rates.  Thailand’s fertility rate in 2013 was 1.44 to every woman, while the United States has a rate of 1.88 to every women.   

Thailand Population Pyramid 

Thailand and the United States vary in population and fertility rates. Both have dramatically changed in the past fifty years.  After reviewing both countries' statistics, they have common areas and some that differ vastly.  


 "Thailand Age Structure." Web. 19 Nov. 2014. < http://www.indexmundi.com/thailand/age_structure.html>.


Rowntree, Lester. Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2014. Print.