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Population Pyramid: Thailand

Introduction; 2000 This is a population pyramid for the year 2000 in Thailand. The pyramid shows many details of the things that are going on in the country for example the birth rate, the life expectancy, the death rate and many more. The pyramid: This pyramid takes a constructive form because the birthrate of the Thai people is lower than the amount of people that have lived in Thailand for over 15 years. The birth of female and male population during the 0-4 age group is 2.3 million children for female and 2.6 million children for male, but when the age group moves up to around 20-24 years, the amount of people in Thailand gets a lot higher than the birthrate of the Thai people. This pyramid is close to an expansive form but due to the smaller birthrate than there are adults in the higher age groups the population pyramid then takes a constructive form and not expansive. Is Thailand LEDC or MEDC? Thailand used to be an LEDC but is now known a NIC. NIC is an abbreviation for Newly Industrialized Country. NIC is a term used in-between LEDC and MEDC because the MEDC countries do not have as many fields or places to farm rice as those of the LEDC countries or if they do, they do not have an agriculture-based economy while the LEDC countries are agriculture-based economy and do not have many urbanized places. NIC is the term used for several countries like China, India, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, etc. because of the past influence that the countries started with (agriculture based). NIC is representing countries that are getting less rural with an agriculture-based economy and more industrialized, urban economy because in the past these countries used to be more rural than they were urbanized. Thailand used to be highly agriculture-based economy but is now becoming more and more industrialized and it is one of the NICs. Thailand is a country that usually imports less than it exports. This means that Thailands trade balance is moving from deficit to surplus. Thailand has a lot of resources like many lands to farm rice or for plantation and fish which makes Thailand really high in exporting fish and rice. Thailand is also known as one of the highest exporters in automotive and electronic parts and rubber latex.

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Although Thailand urbanization rate is still lower than half but it is getting higher and getting less rural so this makes Thailand not less economically developed, but is getting more economically developed throughout the years.

Males and Females: The amount of Males that there are in Thailand at the age group of 0-15 is 6,779,723 people and there are 6,466,625 females during that range. At the age group of 15-64 years, there are 23,410,091 males and there are 23,913,499 females. As for the ages 65 and over, there are 2,778,012 males and 3,372,203 females. This shows that there are more females than males in Thailand. (The numbers of the males and females from each age group is the information from the CIA world fact
book).

The graph shows that there are more males than females during the ages 0-14. But when the population hits the years 16+, there would be more girls than there are boys all the way to the age 100 and older since from the age 24-25, there would be around 2.8 million women and around 2.6 million men. The ratio for both the male and the females between the birth rates is around 2.5-2.3, so there are more males than there are females. When adding them altogether, there are still more males than there are females in Thailand. Living Rates: The birth rate of Thailand in the year 2000 is 14 births per 1000 population. This means that during this year, there are 1.4% people born out of the Thailands population which increases the amount of people in Thailand and also not including the amount of infant mortalities and the death rates. The infant mortality rate is 24 deaths per 1000 live births which is 2.4% of the born babies. This could mean the childs health is not good because the carriers body is not healthy and is unable to sustain a good body for the baby. There could also be improper treatment or mistaken analysis that could cause death to the children. The death rate in Thailand during that time was quite high since in the pyramid, the drop is very fast and steep. The death rate is 7.53 deaths per 1000 population which is around 415,000. But there are 30,000-50,000 Thais who die of HIV aids every year. People die more because of their health (bad nutrition and carelessness) not related to medical care because of the development that happened in Thailand which means living a different lifestyle like eating un-healthy food, environmental pollution and many more problems that could cause damage and faster death to the body. Dependency ratio The dependency ratio for Thailand is 53.1% which shows one person (under 16 and over 64 years old) depending on one more person plus a little bit from one other person (working age from 16 to 64 years old). The higher the ratio, the worse it is for the country because there are a lot of children and elderly people who would have to depend on the working ages. This

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means the working ages would have to find more money to feed not only themselves but others as well and this makes the nation un-wealthy. The working age for the Thai people is around 15 years to 59 years, so this means more elderly and more children who do not work have to depend on people who work. If the birth rate in Thailand falls, it would make the total dependency ratio drop, since there would be fewer nonworking people to feed and when they grow older, fewer elders. This would make the country wealthier since they would have more money to keep for themselves.

Life expectancy The life expectancy for the Thai citizens during the year 2000 was up to around 70 years old. The life expectancy of the Thai citizens is dropping since their life style has changed due to the development of the countries. A long time ago, they used to eat the rice and fish that they caught and farmed for themselves. But now they eat KFC, McDonalds and a lot of un-healthy foods. Also the Environment has changed and will keep changing because of the amount of electricity that we use and the transportation that we have access to and the pollution that has been created. The daily lifestyles is different since now for most farmers, they do not have to do hard body work in the fields and push their own wagons to plough the land. They now have tractors that do all the work for them. As for other people, technology has changed their lifestyle as they can very much do everything from their own seat with the computer and internet causing inactive lifestyle. I think that without the good medical care, the life expectancy would actually be a lot lower than this, but since we have great and highly developed medical care, they are able to treat people to have a longer life.

Introduction; 2025 This is a population pyramid for the year 2025. This pyramid is just a hypothesis of looking at the other pyramids from the previous years. This is probably the closest it could get to the exact right answer since the research and explanations that the pyramid gives to us makes sense and you could clearly understand how it happens to be like this. I will explain all of that including the details of the birthrates, death rates etc. The pyramid This pyramid takes a constructive form as well as the year 2000 population pyramid. This pyramid starts slimmer in the ages 0-24

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which creates an expanding pyramid then the structure gets fatter during the ages 25-59, then the population after that age to 100+ decreases probably due to the medical reasons (but there are still a lot of living people comparing to the year 2000 pyramid. The birthrate in this pyramid for both males and females is just a little bit different from one another since the female rates is around 2.1 million and the male rates is around 2.2 or 2.3 million. This pyramid takes shape of one of the Taj Mahals roofed domes, so this makes the pyramid constructive and not expansive. Is Thailand now an LEDC or MEDC? At this time, Thailand would most likely be an MEDC because after the many years of being a NIC, the development has spread throughout Thailand. There are also a lot more foreign investments with new technologies. The education for Thai people would probably be better since for example right now, the Thai grade one students in public school would have all received tablets in their next coming semester (said by the government at the present) and this would help with their education. Education is very important since the better minds the Thai people have, the better jobs they could receive and they could earn more money and make Thailand a richer place. Infrastructure in Thailand would be better in the year 2025 because there would be more development in water utilities, electricity, public transportation, train system, highway system etc. which makes it more than ready for further development. Thailand would have bigger roads, sky-trains, subways etc. Thailand would still be a beautiful country with a lot of tourist attractions in addition to the Thai rich culture and its friendly people. Thailand would still be a tourism country. This would then bring in the foreign revenue to fund the development. Males and Females Looking at the graph of 2025, it looks like all together, there are more females than there are males because looking at the ages 50+, there are all more females because at the age 50, there are around 2.7 million females and only 2.4 million males. Thailand is a country that has a close amount of males and females. This is not a subject that could be forced upon (without abortion because of gender). Looking at the birth rate, the ratio for males and females does not seem that much different with female figure of 1.9 million and male figure of 2 million. But this ratio changes during the population pyramid since there are not always more males than females. Living Rates The birth rate in the year 2025 is 11 children per 1000 population. This means that there are 1.1% children born into the population of Thailand. This amount has decreased from the birth rate of the year 2000. The reason of the decrease is probably because the people have higher education, knowledge of birth control and they do not want many people to depend on them so that they can save more money for themselves. The perception has also changed since in

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the past they wanted more children so that when they grew older, their children would earn the money to give to them (this means that this was a flaw of the Thai people, being afraid of people not looking after them once they retire.) But once people have more education, they would know how to deal with things when they get older like how to manage the money for their own future. The infant mortality rate for this year is 11 people per 1000 births. This has decreased a lot from the year 2000 since by then, there would be better education so that people could know how to handle things when they are pregnant. Also the medical care would be better since the hospitals would be more developed and give better care to the mothers and their infants. The death rate of the year 2025 is 617000 deaths. This has increased from the year 2000. The reason why the amount of deaths has increased probably is because of the amount of accidents that there would be in Thailand, due to the better development in transportation there would be more car accidents including the carelessness of some Thai people. There could also be more newly discovered diseases spreading throughout Thailand that no doctor/scientist has found a cure to yet. But to me I think that there shouldnt be as many deaths as this because of the better education and the better medicals. But then, this could have been because of the persons themselves probably due to the too much comfort that they have (better technology, better comfort, so no exercise). In the old days, no elevators, people used stairs but in the future all buildings would have elevators. Without washing machines, people would wash their own clothes but in the future, people would all have washing machines for them (happening now). Dependency Ratio The dependency ratio would have to decrease since the birthrate is lower and there are more people in the working age group than there are people in the non-working age group. This means that people in the next 12 years do not want a lot of people to be depending on them so that they could collect the money for themselves or for whom they choose. Looking at the age that people start to have jobs (15), there are around 2 million people for both male and female then all the way up to 59. There would be quite a lot of working people and not many non-working people (children who cant have jobs yet or elders who have retired). Life Expectancy The life expectancy has increased by 7 years. This doesnt really match with the death rate data since they say there are more deaths but people would live longer than people in 2000. But then, this would probably mean that the population has increased quite a lot (more than 10 million people) this would mean that there might be more people dying but then there are also more people left to live a longer life. The life expectancy for this year is 77 and there are around 1.1 million females to live around that age and 0.8 million males to live around that age. Then people would start dying.

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The reason of the long lives would probably have to be because of the medical care and technology. Since it has developed over time, it has increased the chances of people living longer than they actually would live if the hospitals were average. Since there are people who actually live to 100 years (very little), this makes it possible that in the future, if people keep themselves healthy and maintain a good environment to live, the life expectancy of Thai people could actually increase and not decrease because of the changing environment and lifestyle.

Analyzing the changes in the population pyramid over time

By looking at the two pyramids in 2000 and 2025, I see that the structure has changed quite a lot. There are lower birthrate and higher death rate. Both pyramids are constructive, but the pyramid in 2025 shows a little more of the constructive form. In 2000, Thailand was still an NIC, but in 2025, it shows that Thailand is a MEDC by looking at the population pyramid. The changes that are good between 2000 and 2025 are that Thailand would be a MEDC in 2025 and no longer is a NIC. The reason for this forecast is made by looking at the taken form of the pyramid and by looking at the time period that Thailand has taken in being a NIC. Another good predicted change is that Thailands life expectancy rate is higher and the reason for that prediction is the better medical care and technology in the future years. A bad change is that there would be more deaths than there were in 2000. The reason for this is probably the new diseases that we had not yet come across in the past (in year 2000). The Problems that we might face from these changes is that if Thailand would become a MEDC, Thailand would have less natural resources than they used to since being a MEDC, you would have new developments and less farm and field lands. This is bad because Thailand is known for exporting rice and fish to other countries. Another problem is that if the life expectancy is getting higher in the future, there would be too many elderly people and less young people. This is not quite good since the old people are the people who depend on the people who make money and that would probably make the economics drop and the country less wealth. The death rate of Thai people is not really a problem quite yet since the population is still growing but once it stops, the death rate would be

Fah Sriwannavit 8D important and make sure that it would not keep increasing or we would be wiped out.