Population statistics 2012 available

End of March, the official population numbers as of December 31 2012 were published in the Royal Gazette, listed for each province. According to this announcement, the Kingdom has a population of 64,456,695 - 32,700,727 men and 32,755,968 women.

More detailled is the population statistics which is available at the Department of Provincial Administration (DOPA), which goes down to subdistrict level and also separated municipal and non-municipal data. I have written down a guide on how to read these data earlier on the blog. The full 2012 data is now also available - with the usual caveat that this data relies on the registration data, but quite a lot of Thai don't renew their registration when they move to a different province, so especially the numbers for Bangkok are probably much lower than the real population.

A little picks from the data

• The population for the whole country increased by 380,662, which means an increase by 0.59%.
• The province which had the largest population increase was Chonburi, which gained 25,346 citizen. By percentage however, Pathum Thani was the biggest winner with a 2.27% increase.
• Tak lost 4,973 citizen, which also made it the biggest looser by percentage with a 0.94% loss.
• At district level, Mueang Samut Prakan district had the largest increase by number (7,556), whereas Bang Yai in Pathum Thani the largest by percentage (4.46%).
• At subdistrict level, the largest increase by percentage was on Ko Tao (25.21%), the largest decrease in Mae Sot (-12.49%)

Usually the population data contains some new municipalities as well, however by far not all of the municipalities created lately are listed with the data - and also those municipalities added were already created four years ago. One reason for this is obviously that in many provinces the TIS:1099 codes at district level are all used and its no longer possible to assign such a number to a the new municipalities.

• Khon Kaen: Muang Wan (เทศบาลตำบลม่วงหวาน) and Nong Tum (เทศบาลตำบลหนองตูม) were added.
• Roi Et: Niwet (เทศบาลตำบลนิเวศน์) and Ma-ue (เทศบาลตำบลมะอึ) were added.
• Songkhla: Thung Lan (เทศบาลตำบลทุ่งลาน) added.