bloody tiger Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 G'day folks, I am curious to know if those of us who are on visa extensions are included when population statistics are released. I have been visiting this wondrous land for just shy of 40 years and have lived here non stop now for the last 14 years on non imm O visa extension. I imagine there is many similar across the kingdom, maybe in excess of a million, but yet not classified as permanent residents even though we are probably the very definition of permanent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Metropolitian Posted January 25, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2020 Yes and no. We are in the census but as expatriates better said foreign community classed the same as people from Lao and Burma. We are classified as 'foreign residents' which is in the census around the 2.5 million. One specific groups that fall out of the population statistics: Hill peoples. Nearly a million hill peoples and forest dwellers are still treated as outsiders, hundreds of thousands of them are refused citizenship although many are natives to the land 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maestro Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Not related to visas or work permit. Moved to General Topics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HHTel Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 On 1/25/2020 at 11:37 PM, bloody tiger said: maybe in excess of a million Very much less than that and as far as I know, (less than 200,000 of which less than 100,000 are retirees) we are part of the demographic. Most foreigners living here are from other SE countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolitian Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 The following table comes from TNSO. It is not really recent, in fact they didn't update many of the stats over the last ten years. Currently the population is 69.04m , in this old stat 65m. But it gives the figure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolitian Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 2 hours ago, HHTel said: Very much less than that and as far as I know, (less than 200,000 of which less than 100,000 are retirees) we are part of the demographic. Most foreigners living here are from other SE countries. Unless you are chinese, your 'we' if you mean 'Europeans' then you are about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max69xl Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 39 minutes ago, Metropolitian said: Unless you are chinese, your 'we' if you mean 'Europeans' then you are about right. Better call it westerners. That will at least include the US and Australia/NZ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike787 Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 We only matter if we have cash... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AAArdvark Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 27 minutes ago, Max69xl said: Better call it westerners. That will at least include the US and Australia/NZ. Or call it Farangs as that is the intended use of the word. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metropolitian Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Max69xl said: Better call it westerners. That will at least include the US and Australia/NZ. I prefer to call us foreigners. I am one from Europe, as person I am classified as 'Farang'. Australia and New Zealand is 'Pacific' in the list. The US is only a country in the Americas. Most Thais won't call Mexicans (same as with Indians, Africans, and all the other non caucasians) westerners. Natives of Australia and NZ are not westerners. Westerners can hold the nationality. Once one call them self 'native' to those countries, they ought to be westerner-off but still identified as farang by Thais. Edited January 27, 2020 by Metropolitian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Traubert Posted January 27, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2020 4 hours ago, HHTel said: Very much less than that and as far as I know, (less than 200,000 of which less than 100,000 are retirees) we are part of the demographic. Most foreigners living here are from other SE countries. 153k of which 79k are retirees. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max69xl Posted January 27, 2020 Share Posted January 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Traubert said: 153k of which 79k are retirees. There's no official number. No one knows how many expats there are because they don't know how to categorize everybody. I have seen several different numbers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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