EC_EI_027 Thailand's Macro Economic Indicators
Service Manager Sakol (66(0)2283-6880) Chanida (66(0)2356-7417)   
  Last Updated : 29 Jan 2010 14:30   
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11. Population (Million persons)........63.3963.0462.8362.42
22. GDP      
3   2.1 GDP at constant 1988 price (Billions of Baht)........4,361.44,256.54,056.53,858.0
4      (% change)........2.54.95.14.6
5      2.1.1 Agriculture (Billions of Baht) 1/........383.0370.0366.8347.8
6         (% change)........3.50.95.4-1.8
7      2.1.2 Non-agriculture (Billions of Baht) 1/........3,978.33,886.53,689.73,510.1
8         (% change)........2.45.35.15.3
9   2.2 GDP at current price (Billions of Baht)........9,075.48,529.87,850.17,092.8
10      (% change)........6.48.710.79.3
11   2.3 GNP per capita (Baht : Person)........131,140.4124,447.4114,883.6103,671.0
123. Inflation      
13   3.1 Headline Consumer Price Index (2007=100)....104.5105.4100.097.893.4
14      (% change)....-0.95.52.34.74.5
15   3.2 Core Consumer Price Index (2007=100) 2/....102.6102.3100.099.096.8
16     (% change)....0.32.41.12.31.6
174. External Account      
18   4.1 Export (Billions of USD)....150.8175.2150.0127.9109.3
19      (% change)....-13.915.817.216.915.1
20   4.2 Import (Billions of USD)....131.4175.1138.4126.9117.6
21      (% change)....-24.926.49.07.925.8
22   4.3 Trade balance (Billions of USD)....19.40.111.50.9-8.2
23   4.4 Current account balance (Billions of USD)....20.21.614.02.3-7.6
24      (as % of GDP)........0.65.71.1-4.3
25   4.5 Net capital movement (Billions of USD)....-2.814.6-2.46.811.0
26      4.5.1 Private 3/....-1.817.41.67.29.5
27      4.5.2 Public....-2.6-2.9-3.4-0.91.3
28      4.5.3 BOT....1.60.0-0.60.40.2
29   4.6 Balance of payments (Billions of USD)....24.124.617.112.75.4
30   4.7 International reserves (Billions of USD)....138.4111.087.467.052.1
31   4.8 Swap Obligation (Billions of USD)....-15.6-6.9-19.0-6.9-3.8
32   4.9 Total debt outstanding (Billions of USD)....69.965.261.859.752.6
33      of which : Public debt 4/....15.713.112.114.214.1
34   4.10 Total debt service ratio (%)....6.87.011.611.210.7
35     of which : Public (included BOT since 1997)....0.60.61.01.21.1
365. Government Finance (fiscal year)      
37   5.1 Cash balance (Billions of Baht)-128.4-420.3-24.0-94.24.516.9
38      (as % of GDP)........-0.3-1.10.10.2
39   5.2 Total public debt outstanding (Billions of Baht) 5/3,657.83,665.43,118.92,948.32,892.82,778.4
40      Domestic debt3,236.03,248.02,692.72,482.92,331.22,127.3
416. Monetary Statistics 6/      
42   6.1 Narrow Money (Billions of Baht)....1,174.61,041.21,000.0911.5890.2
43     (% change)....12.84.19.72.47.3
44   6.2 Broad Money (Billions of Baht)....10,597.39,948.79,109.08,573.47,926.9
45     (% change)....6.59.26.38.26.1
46   6.3 Domestic Claims : Included investment (% change)....4.67.73.91.14.6
47      Claims on Other Nonfinancial Corp., Other Resident Sector & Other financial Corp. (% change)....3.47.53.33.06.0
48   6.4 Other Depository Corporations deposits (% change) 7/....5.58.52.37.35.8
49   6.5 Interest rate (year end) 8/      
50      6.5.1 Prime rate : Min....5.856.756.857.506.50
51                Prime rate : Max....6.257.007.138.006.75
52      6.5.2 Fixed deposits (1 yr.) : Min....0.651.752.254.002.50
53                Fixed deposits (1 yr.) : Max....1.002.002.385.003.50
547. Exchange rate 9/      
55      Baht : US$ (Reference rate) average (Baht : 1 USD)....34.3433.3634.5637.9340.27
Remark:
1/ The NESDB has reclassified the GDP by industry to be followed the Thailand Standard Industrial Classification (TSIC) 2001 version since 1995. (Formerly used TSIC 1972 version)
2/ Exclude raw food and energy items from the consumer price index basket.
3/ Include Commercial bank and BIBF's.
4/ Include Bank of Thailand's debt.
5/ Exclude Bank of Thailand and Financial Institutions Development Fund's Debt.
6/ From 2003, the compilation method follows MFSM 2000.
7/ Excluding inter Other Depository Corporations.
8/ As quoted by the 5 largest banks.
9/ Since July 1997, the figures are represented by average inter-bank exchange rate.