Deputy Prime Minister Somsak Thepsuthin says the number of babies born each year in Thailand has dropped from over a million babies in 1970 to below half a million.
The average number of births per woman in Thailand had fallen from 6.29 in 1970 to 1.08 in 2023, according to statistics from the National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDC).
The NESDC forecasts that Thailand’s population will reach a peak of 67.19 million in 2028, before gradually dropping to 67 million in 2033 and 66.18 million in 2037.
The working-age population will also see a steady drop, from 66.1% in 2017 to 56.8% in 2037, the council projects.
Somsak says this trend could halve the Thai population over the next six decades. This would result in the working-age population shrinking from 46 million to about 14 million, severely affecting the country’s economic development and national security, he adds.
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