Talk:Thai people
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Where does the figure of 51 million come from? I ask because Thailand has well over 60 million people. Of course, maybe we are excluding people in Thailand that are not Thai. But still, I am curious about the source. Anagnorisis 04:58, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
- It's from the CIA factbook, and it's the figure for ethnic Thais. It actually includes the Lao as well, so it should be much lower. For the population of Thailand see Thailand. Markyour words 11:51, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
The joshua project says that about 30 million THAI.
- There are 20 million ethnic lao people in Thailand, so the population should be much smaller. Anyone care to change? CanCanDuo 16:27, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
- That figure of 62,000,000 Thai people in Thailand cannot be correct. The entire population of Thailand is estimated to be around 64,631,595, and only about 75% of those are ethnic Thais. The remainder are mostly Chinese. The total non-Chinese population of Thailand should be approximately 55,583,171, but that figure also includes a total of approximately 7,109,475 ethnic Malays, Khmers, Mons, and other non-Thai people. Ebizur 18:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
- Furthermore, about 29.4% of Thailand's population (approx. 19,000,000 people) speak the Isan dialect of the Lao language (it is really part of a dialect continuum between "Thai" and "Lao", apparently), which means that this large fraction of the Daic population of Thailand is ethnolinguistically more closely related, or at least equally related, to the Lao people that predominate in neighboring Laos. Ultimately, slightly less than half (about 45.6%) of the population of Thailand is ethnically Thai, which would put the Thai population of Thailand at approximately 29,472,007 or close to 30 million persons. Ebizur 18:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
