International rankings of Thailand
The following are international rankings of Thailand.
General
- Human Development Index (2014): Thailand ranked 89 of 187 countries.[1]
- Satisfaction with Life Index: Ranked 76 of 178 countries
- Where-to-be-born Index: Thailand ranked 50 of 80 countries.[2]
Adultery
- Most adulterous countries: Percentage of married adults who have admitted to having an affair (57%). Thailand ranks number one of ten.[3]
Airports
- Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport (BKK) was ranked number 47 of the world's top 100 airports in 2015.[4]
Capital city
- Bangkok: Global city ranking, 2012: Alpha minus (cities that link major economic regions into the world economy)
Climate change
- 59th of 178 countries ranked in the ND-GAIN Index, a project of the University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN). The index "summarizes a country's vulnerability to climate change and other global challenges in combination with its readiness to improve resilience".[5]
Competitiveness
- Thailand ranked 31 of 144 economies in the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Index 2014-2015. It was ranked tenth in Asia, after ASEAN partners Singapore (ranked 2) and Malaysia (ranked 20).[6]
Corruption
- Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: Thailand ranked 85 of 174 countries.[7]
Crime
- Number of intentional homicides committed with a firearm that were recorded in criminal (police) statistics: Ranked 3rd for the year 2000 among the 92 countries that responded to the survey (behind #1 South Africa and #2 Colombia).[8]:p.451
Dumping plastic waste
- Thailand ranked sixth of 192 nations with ocean shorelines. Based on 2010 data, Thailand is estimated to have contributed 1.03 million tonnes of plastic waste to the ocean. [9]
Economics
- Nominal GDP growth rate: Ranked 123 of 215 (4.4% growth rate)
- Gross domestic product 2013: Ranked 30 of 192 (US$387 billion)[10]
- Economic "Misery Index" (2015): Bloomberg News ranked Thailand number one of fifty-one nations as the happiest economy, largely due to its low inflation and unemployment.[11]
- Quality of Life Index: Ranked 42 of 111 countries.[12]:p.4
- Index of Economic Freedom 2015: Heritage Foundation ranked Thailand 75 of 178 countries.[13]
- IMD International: World Competitiveness Scoreboard 2006. Ranked x of 60 economies (countries and regions)
- A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Magazine: Globalization Index 2005. Ranked 46 of 62 countries
- World Talent Ranking, 2014: The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) assesses "the ability of countries to develop, attract and retain talent to sustain the talent pool available for enterprises operating in those economies." Ranked 34 of 60 countries.[14]
- Global Talent Competitiveness Index, 2014. Thailand ranks 61 of 93 nations in this analysis of of growing local talent or attracting talent from abroad.[15][16]
Education
- OECD: Programme for International Student Assessment (2003 PISA ). Ranked x of 38 in mathematics, x of 38 in science, x of 38 in reading, and x of 38 in problem solving.
English proficiency
- EF English Proficiency Index: Thailand ranked 48 of 63 nations, classed in the "Very Low Proficiency" quintile. Other ASEAN nation rankings were: Malaysia, 12; Singapore, 13; Indonesia, 28; Vietnam, 33; Cambodia, 61. [17]
Gender gap
- World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2014: Thailand ranked 61 of 142 nations.[18]
Giving
- World Giving Index 2014: Overall 21 of 135 countries[19]
Happiness
- World Happiness Report 2015: Thailand ranks 34 of 158 nations in the third issuance of the World Happiness Report.[20]
Internet
- Freedom House: In 2014 awarded Thailand an overall score of 62 ("not free") (0=best, 100=worst) for Internet freedom, ranking 52 of 65 countries. In 2013 Thailand was rated as "partly free". [21]
- International Telecommunications Union (ITU): In their 2012 report, ranked Thailand 92 of 155 countries for telecommunications infrastructure.[22]
Politics
- Environmental Sustainability Index 2005: Ranked 73 of 146 countries.[23]:p.22
Press freedom
- World Press Freedom Index 2015: Thailand ranked 134 of 180 countries[24]
Services offshoring
- Global Services Location Index 2014: Thailand ranked number six of 50 countries among the best locations to offshore service functions.[25]
Social
- State of the World's Mothers 2014: Ranked 72 of 178 countries.[26]:p.76
- Social Progress Index 2014: 59 of 132 countries[27]
Tourism
- International Tourist Arrivals: Thailand ranked number ten in 2013, up five places from 2012 with 26.5 million arrivals.[28]:p.6
- International Tourist Receipts: Ranked number seven in the world in 2013, up two places from 2012, with receipts estimated at US$42.1 billion.[28]:p.6
Traffic safety
- Global Status Report on Road Safety 2013: Estimated Road Traffic Death Rate of 38.1 persons per 100,000 population: Ranked 2 of 182 countries (1: worst, 182: best).[29]:p.250
Tree cover loss
- Thailand ranks 29 of 197 nations (1: worst, 197: best) in tree cover loss (deforestation), 2001-2012.[30]
Universities
- King Mongkut's University of Technology, Thonburi was ranked number 50 among the top 100 Asian (including Middle Eastern) universities in 2014. It was the only Thai university in the ranking. The top-ranked ASEAN school was the National University of Singapore (NUS) at number 2.[31]
References
- ↑ "2014 Human Development Index". United Nations Development Programme. United Nations. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
- ↑ "The Lottery of Life; Where to be born in 2013". The Economist. Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). 2012-11-21. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
- ↑ Bartlett, Evan (2015-02-18). "The 10 most adulterous countries in the world". The Independent (London). Retrieved 18 Feb 2015.
- ↑ "The World's Top 100 Airports in 2015". World Airport Awards. Retrieved 16 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "ND-GAIN Index Rankings 2014". ND-GAIN Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index. University of Notre Dame (US). Retrieved 2014-11-08.
- ↑ "The Global Competitiveness Report 2014 - 2015". World Economic Forum. Retrieved 19 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "Corruption Perceptions Index 2014: Results". Transparency International. Retrieved 2014-12-03.
- ↑ "Seventh United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, covering the period 1998-2000" (PDF). UN Office on Drugs and Crime. p. 451. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ Jambeck, Jenna R. (2015-02-13). "Plastic Waste Inputs from Land into the Ocean". Science 347 (6223): 768–771. doi:10.1126/science.1260352.
Cited in "Thailand big contributor to plastic trash on ocean floors", The Nation, Bangkok, 14 Feb 2015
- ↑ "Gross domestic product 2013" (PDF). World Bank. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ Jamrisko, Michelle; Saraiva, Catarina A; Tartar, Andre Fonseca (2015-03-03). "The 15 Happiest Economies in the World". Bloomberg Business (Bloomberg News). Retrieved 4 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "The Economist Intelligence Unit’s quality-of-life index" (PDF). The Economist. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "2015 Index of Economic Freedom". Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ IMD World Talent Report, 2014 (PDF). Lausanne, Switzerland: Institute for Management Development (IMD). Nov 2014. p. 12. Retrieved 2014-11-21.
- ↑ Lanvin, Bruno; Evans, Paul (Dec 2014). Global Talent Competitive Index, 2014 (PDF). INSEAD. p. 208. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ "Thailand ranks low in world talent competitiveness index". The Nation. 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2015-01-29.
- ↑ "EF English Proficiency Index (EF EPI)". EF Education First Ltd. Retrieved 17 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "Gender Gap Report 2014". World Economic Forum. WEF. Retrieved 19 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "World Giving Index 2014" (PDF). www.cafonline.org. Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). Nov 2014. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
- ↑ Helliwell, John F.; Layard, Richard; Sachs, Jeffrey (2015). World Happiness Report 2015. New York: Sustainable Solutions Development Network (SDSN). p. 26. Retrieved 24 Apr 2015.
- ↑ "Freedom on the Net, 2014: Thailand". Freedom House. Freedom House. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
- ↑ Measuring the Information Society, 2012. Geneva: International Telecommunications Union. 2012. p. 21. ISBN 978-92-61-14071-7. Retrieved 2014-12-28.
- ↑ Esty, Daniel C; Levy, Marc; Srebotnjak, Tanja; de Sherbinin, Alexander (2005). 2005 Environmental Sustainability Index: Benchmarking National Environmental Stewardship (PDF). New Haven CT USA: Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy. p. 22. Retrieved 4 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "2015 World Press Freedom Index". Reporters Without Borders. Retrieved 2015-02-14.
- ↑ "A.T. Kearney's Global Services Location Index". A.T. Kearney. 2014. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ State of the World's Mothers 2014 (PDF). Westport CT USA: Save the Children. 2014. p. 76. ISBN 1-888393-28-9. Retrieved 4 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "Social Progress Index 2014". Social Progress Imperative. Social Progress Imperative. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 "UNWTO Tourism Highlights, 2014 Edition". UNWTO. Madrid: UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). 2014. Retrieved 10 Mar 2015.
- ↑ Global status report on road safety 2013: supporting a decade of action. Geneva: World Health Organization. 2013. p. 250. ISBN 978 92 4 156456 4. Retrieved 5 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "Country Rankings". Global Forest Loss. Retrieved 2 Mar 2015.
- ↑ "Asia University Rankings 2014 top 100". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 13 Mar 2015.
