Pattaya July 2020

BUSINESS SUPPLEMENT
JUST THE STATISTICS
While bar charts, line graphs
and simple numbers are hardly
capable of providing the defining
answer to many economic, social
and political questions, they are
certainly a good way of obtaining a
general overview of any particular
subject.
Each month the Business Supplement
will look into a brace of
statistical information and provide
readers with what we consider to
be the central elements of these
figures.
INTERNET USERS
IN ASIA IN 2020
Asia is well connected to the
internet but there are plenty of
disparities in the region.
China has the most internet
users in the APAC region numbering
854.4 million out of a population
of 1.393 billion people. India
is in second place with 687.6
million users out of a similarly
sized population of 1.353billion.
This means that internet penetration
in China is 61 per cent vs.
just 50.7 per cent in India.
In South East Asia, Indonesia
leads the way for total users with
175.4 million people connected
out of a population of
267.7 million, followed by the
Philippines with 73 million connected
out of 106.7 million.
These numbers represent internet
reach of 65.5 per cent and
68.4 percent respectively.
Vietnam and Bangladesh
have 68.17 million internet users
and 66.44 million users out of
populations of 95.5 million and
161.4 million respectively.
Thailand has 52 million Internet
users out of a population of
69.43 million, a penetration rate
of 74.89 per cent.
THAILAND’S
POPULATION
GROWTH RATE
FALLING
Statistics from the ten-year period
starting in 2008 and ending
in 2018 show a continuous decline
in population growth in Thailand.
That is not to say that the population
is shrinking, but that the
rate of growth is slowing.
The population in 2008 was
0.53 percent higher than in 2007,
but the following year saw a rate
of increase of just 0.5 per cent.
In 2010 this fell to 0.49 per cent
growth year on year, and slipped
to 0.48 per cent in 2011. Sharper
falls occurred in 2014 when population
growth was at just 0.43 per
cent, and in 2015 which saw an
even slower pace of 0.40 percent.
In each and every year during
the 10 year period there were constant
falls in the rates, with 2018,
the last year in the series, seeing
only a 0.32 per cent rise in population
growth over 2017.
A the same time, life expectancy
for those born in 2008 stood at
73.34 years on average, whilst for
those born in 2017 life expectancy
rose to 76.68 years.
Average age of the population
in 2010 stood at 35 and a half
years but by 2020 this had risen
to 40.1 years. Average age is
expected to reach 49.7 years by
2050.
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