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People
67,089,500
country comparison to the world: 
20
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)
0-14 years: 20.8% (male 7,013,877/female 6,690,554)
15-64 years: 70.5% (male 23,000,156/female 23,519,298)
65 years and over: 8.7% (male 2,612,269/female 3,162,282) (2010 est.)
total: 34 years
male: 33.2 years
female: 34.8 years (2010 est.)
0.653% (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 145
13.01 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 154
6.47 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 150
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population
country comparison to the world: 106
urban population: 33% of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 1.7% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
at birth: 1.054 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.98 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.82 male(s)/female
total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (2010 est.)
total: 16.71 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 113
male: 17.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 15.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
total population: 75.02 years
country comparison to the world: 88
male: 72.94 years
female: 77.21 years (2010 est.)
1.65 children born/woman (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: 176
1.4% (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 46
610,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 18
30,000 (2007 est.)
country comparison to the world: 17
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis, and malaria
animal contact disease: rabies
water contact disease: leptospirosis
note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)
noun: Thai (singular and plural)
adjective: Thai
Thai 75%, Chinese 14%, other 11%
Buddhist 94.6%, Muslim 4.6%, Christian 0.7%, other 0.1% (2000 census)
Thai, English (secondary language of the elite), ethnic and regional dialects
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92.6%
male: 94.9%
female: 90.5% (2000 census)
total: 12 years
male: 12 years
female: 13 years (2009)
4.9% of GDP (2008)
country comparison to the world: 76
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