- ISO 3166
TH- Main language + region
th-TH- Currency
- THB · Thai Baht
- Region
- APAC · SEA
Thailand
Thailand has 69.9M people, and 63.5M of them are online. Thai is the most widely spoken language at 80%, one of 10 languages CLDR lists here. Thai is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to th-TH.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
63.5M
0%world median 81%100%
91% of 69.9M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$8,057
Higher than 47% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
92%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
10
Thai 80% · English 27% · Northeastern Thai 24%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
402
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
94%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Thailand
share of 69.9M people
- Thaiofficial80%55.9M
- English27%18.9M
- Northeastern Thai24%16.8M
- Northern Thai9.6%6.7M
- Southern Thai8%5.6M
- Pattani Malay5%3.5M
- Traditional Chinese1.8%1.3M
- Northern Khmer1.7%1.2M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%. 2 more languages sit below the top eight, at 0.7% combined.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (th-TH).
Plural categories
1
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text. One form fits every count here.
Script family
Thai
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 เมษายน 2569
Short: 21/4/69
Time
18:30
Week starts Sun
Currency
฿1,234.56
1,234.56 in THB · Thai Baht
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script