AGEING IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: KEY FACTS

Thailand

KEY INDICATORS

Section I: Demographic indicators

1. Key population indicators, 20231

Indicators Value
Population age 60+ (thousands) 16,405
Population aged 60+ (% of total population) 22.8
Percentage of women out of the population aged 60+ 55.5
Percentage of women out of the population aged 80+ 61.7
Life expectancy at birth (years) 79.9
Median age (years) 40.2
Total fertility rate (2023) 1.3

2. Population by age group, selected years1

Thousands
Age 1950 1990 2020 2023 2030 2050
0-14 8,605 16,571 11,483 10,932 9,588 7,805
15-64 11,150 36,308 50,093 49,411 47,124 38,647
60+ 1,023 3,679 14,548 16,405 20,427 26,020
65+ 656 2,349 9,900 11,458 15,348 21,428
80+ 82 423 2,248 2,584 3,683 8,747
Total 20,412 55,228 71,476 71,801 72,060 67,880

2. Population by age group, selected years1

Percentage
Age 1950 1990 2020 2023 2030 2050
0-14 42.2 30.0 16.1 15.2 13.3 11.5
15-64 54.6 65.7 70.1 68.8 65.4 56.9
60+ 5.0 6.7 20.4 22.8 28.3 38.3
65+ 3.2 4.3 13.9 16.0 21.3 31.6
80+ 0.4 0.8 3.1 3.6 5.1 12.9

3. Percentage of total population by age group and sex, selected years1
1990
2020
2030
2050

4. Percentage of male and female population by age, 20231

5. Proportion of the total population by broad age group, 1950-20501

6. Proportion of population aged 80 years or over as percentage of population aged 65 years or over, 1950-20501

7. Median age of the total population, 1950-20501

8. Life expectancy at birth, male and female, 1950-20501

9. Potential old-age support ratio (ages 20-64/age 65+), 1950-20501

10. Speed of ageing (Number of years required or expected for percentage of population aged 65 and over to rise from 7 per cent to 14 per cent)1,2

11. Life expectancy at birth (both sexes), and total fertility rate, 1990-20501

Section II: Employment and social protection

12. Labour force participation rate of people aged 65 years or over, percentage, latest available year3

icon both 26.4 icon male 35.8 icon female 19.1

13. Percentage of older persons covered by social protection systems including floors (SDG 1.3.1), 2020 or latest available year4

14. Legal coverage of contributory mandatory pensions, total, female, male (percentage of working-age population), 2020 or latest available year4

icon both 32.6 icon male 36.9 icon female 28.7

15. Informal employment rate of 65+ (percentage of informal employment out of total employment in that age group), 20183

icon both 83.4 icon male 81 icon female 87.1

Section III: Health

16. Life expectancy (LE) versus healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60, both sexes, most recent years5

17. Life expectancy (LE) versus healthy life expectancy (HALE) at age 60, male and female, most recent years5

18. Out-of-pocket health expenditure as percentage of current health expenditure (CHE), latest available years5

19. Suicide rate, per 100,000 population, by sex and age group, latest available year 20195

20. Dementia physician density, per 1,000 population, latest available year5

icon physician 0.7 persons

21. Total expenditure on social protection (excluding health), percentage, 2020 or latest available year4

icon both 3

Section IV: Living arrangements

22. Household living arrangements of people aged 65 years or over, latest available years6

23. Literacy rate of older persons age 65 years or over, percentage, latest available year 20157

icon both 78.7
(of 65+ total population) icon male 85.4
(of 65+ male population) icon female 73.3
(of 65+ female population)

24. Internet users, as a percentage of their age group, latest available years8

Source: ESCAP 2022. Ageing in Asia and the Pacific: key facts, available at: https://www.population-trends-asiapacific.org/data

Footnote

  1. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition.
  2. Kinsella, Kevin and Wan He (2009). “An Aging World: 2008”. International Population Reports, Issued June 2009: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Commerce. Available at https://www.census.gov/prod/2009pubs/p95-09-1.pdf
  3. International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT Data. Available at https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/ (accessed on 3 March 2023).
  4. World Social Protection Data Dashboards. Available at https://www.social-protection.org (accessed on 3 March 2023).
  5. World Health Organization, Global Health Observatory data repository. Available at https://www.who.int/data/gho (accessed on 3 March 2023).
  6. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). Database on the Households and Living Arrangements of Older Persons 2022. Available at https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/data/living-arrangements-older-persons (accessed on 3 March 2023).
  7. World Bank, Databank. Available at https://databank.worldbank.org/ (accessed on 3 March 2023).
  8. ITU (2022). ITU, Digital Development Dashboard. Available at https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/Dashboards/Pages/Digital-Development.aspx (accessed on 20 Februry 2023).