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Afghanistan\nAlbania\nAlgeria\nAmerican Samoa\nAndorra\nAngola\nAnguilla\nAntigua and Barbuda\nArgentina\nArmenia\nAruba\nAustralia\nAustria\nAzerbaijan\nBahamas\nBahrain\nBangladesh\nBarbados\nBelarus\nBelgium\nBelize\nBenin\nBermuda\nBhutan\nBolivia\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nBotswana\nBrazil\nBritish Virgin Islands\nBrunei Darussalam\nBulgaria\nBurkina Faso\nBurundi\nCambodia\nCameroon\nCanada\nCape Verde\nCayman Islands\nCentral African Republic\nChad\nChannel Islands\nChile\nChina\nColombia\nComoros\nDemocratic Republic of Congo\nRepublic of Congo\nCook Islands\nCosta Rica\nCote dIvoire\nCroatia\nCuba\nCuracao\nCyprus\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nDjibouti\nDominica\nDominican Republic\nEcuador\nEgypt\nEl Salvador\nEquatorial Guinea\nEritrea\nEstonia\nEswatini\nEthiopia\nFaeroe Islands\nFalkland Islands (Malvinas)\nFiji\nFinland\nFrance\nFrench Guiana\nFrench Polynesia\nGabon\nGambia\nGeorgia\nGermany\nGhana\nGibraltar\nGreece\nGreenland\nGrenada\nGuadeloupe\nGuam\nGuatemala\nGuernsey\nGuinea\nGuinea-Bissau\nGuyana\nHaiti\nHoly See (Vatican City)\nHonduras\nHong Kong, China\nHungary\nIceland\nIndia\nIndonesia\nIran\nIraq\nIreland\nIsrael\nItaly\nJamaica\nJapan\nJersey\nJordan\nKazakhstan\nKenya\nKiribati\nNorth Korea\nRepublic of Korea\nKosovo\nKuwait\nKyrgyzstan\nLaos\nLatvia\nLebanon\nLesotho\nLiberia\nLibya\nLiechtenstein\nLithuania\nLuxembourg\nMacao, China\nNorth Macedonia\nMadagascar\nMalawi\nMalaysia\nMaldives\nMali\nMalta\nMan, Isle of\nMarshall Islands\nMartinique\nMauritania\nMauritius\nMayotte\nMexico\nMicronesia, Federated States of\nMoldova\nMonaco\nMongolia\nMontenegro\nMontserrat\nMorocco\nMozambique\nMyanmar (Burma)\nNamibia\nNauru\nNepal\nNetherlands\nNetherlands Antilles\nNew Caledonia\nNew Zealand\nNicaragua\nNiger\nNigeria\nNiue\nNorthern Mariana Islands\nNorway\nOman\nPakistan\nPalau\nPalestinian Territory\nPanama\nPapua New Guinea\nParaguay\nPeru\nPhilippines\nPitcairn\nPoland\nPortugal\nPuerto Rico\nQatar\nReunion\nRomania\nRussian Federation\nRwanda\nSt. Helena\nSt. Kitts and Nevis\nSt. Lucia\nSt. Martin (French part)\nSt. Pierre et Miquelon\nSt. Vincent and the Grenadines\nSamoa\nSan Marino\nSao Tome and Principe\nSaudi Arabia\nSenegal\nSerbia\nSeychelles\nSierra Leone\nSingapore\nSint Maarten (Dutch part)\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nSolomon Islands\nSomalia\nSouth Africa\nSouth Sudan\nSpain\nSri Lanka\nSudan\nSuriname\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nSyrian Arab Republic\nTaiwan\nTajikistan\nTanzania\nThailand\nTimor-Leste\nTogo\nTokelau\nTonga\nTrinidad and Tobago\nTunisia\nTurkiye\nTurkmenistan\nTurks and Caicos Islands\nTuvalu\nUganda\nUkraine\nUnited Arab Emirates\nUnited Kingdom\nUnited States\nUruguay\nUzbekistan\nVanuatu\nVenezuela\nViet Nam\nVirgin Islands\nWallis and Futuna Islands\nWestern Sahara\nYemen\nZambia\nZimbabwe\n Choose a country to compare\n----------\nAfghanistan\nAlbania\nAlgeria\nAmerican Samoa\nAndorra\nAngola\nAnguilla\nAntigua and Barbuda\nArgentina\nArmenia\nAruba\nAustralia\nAustria\nAzerbaijan\nBahamas\nBahrain\nBangladesh\nBarbados\nBelarus\nBelgium\nBelize\nBenin\nBermuda\nBhutan\nBolivia\nBosnia and Herzegovina\nBotswana\nBrazil\nBritish Virgin Islands\nBrunei Darussalam\nBulgaria\nBurkina Faso\nBurundi\nCambodia\nCameroon\nCanada\nCape Verde\nCayman Islands\nCentral African Republic\nChad\nChannel Islands\nChile\nChina\nColombia\nComoros\nDemocratic Republic of Congo\nRepublic of Congo\nCook Islands\nCosta Rica\nCote dIvoire\nCroatia\nCuba\nCuracao\nCyprus\nCzech Republic\nDenmark\nDjibouti\nDominica\nDominican Republic\nEcuador\nEgypt\nEl Salvador\nEquatorial Guinea\nEritrea\nEstonia\nEswatini\nEthiopia\nFaeroe Islands\nFalkland Islands (Malvinas)\nFiji\nFinland\nFrance\nFrench Guiana\nFrench Polynesia\nGabon\nGambia\nGeorgia\nGermany\nGhana\nGibraltar\nGreece\nGreenland\nGrenada\nGuadeloupe\nGuam\nGuatemala\nGuernsey\nGuinea\nGuinea-Bissau\nGuyana\nHaiti\nHoly See (Vatican City)\nHonduras\nHong Kong, China\nHungary\nIceland\nIndia\nIndonesia\nIran\nIraq\nIreland\nIsrael\nItaly\nJamaica\nJapan\nJersey\nJordan\nKazakhstan\nKenya\nKiribati\nNorth Korea\nRepublic of Korea\nKosovo\nKuwait\nKyrgyzstan\nLaos\nLatvia\nLebanon\nLesotho\nLiberia\nLibya\nLiechtenstein\nLithuania\nLuxembourg\nMacao, China\nNorth Macedonia\nMadagascar\nMalawi\nMalaysia\nMaldives\nMali\nMalta\nMan, Isle of\nMarshall Islands\nMartinique\nMauritania\nMauritius\nMayotte\nMexico\nMicronesia, Federated States of\nMoldova\nMonaco\nMongolia\nMontenegro\nMontserrat\nMorocco\nMozambique\nMyanmar (Burma)\nNamibia\nNauru\nNepal\nNetherlands\nNetherlands Antilles\nNew Caledonia\nNew Zealand\nNicaragua\nNiger\nNigeria\nNiue\nNorthern Mariana Islands\nNorway\nOman\nPakistan\nPalau\nPalestinian Territory\nPanama\nPapua New Guinea\nParaguay\nPeru\nPhilippines\nPitcairn\nPoland\nPortugal\nPuerto Rico\nQatar\nReunion\nRomania\nRussian Federation\nRwanda\nSt. Helena\nSt. Kitts and Nevis\nSt. Lucia\nSt. Martin (French part)\nSt. Pierre et Miquelon\nSt. Vincent and the Grenadines\nSamoa\nSan Marino\nSao Tome and Principe\nSaudi Arabia\nSenegal\nSerbia\nSeychelles\nSierra Leone\nSingapore\nSint Maarten (Dutch part)\nSlovakia\nSlovenia\nSolomon Islands\nSomalia\nSouth Africa\nSouth Sudan\nSpain\nSri Lanka\nSudan\nSuriname\nSweden\nSwitzerland\nSyrian Arab Republic\nTaiwan\nTajikistan\nTanzania\nThailand\nTimor-Leste\nTogo\nTokelau\nTonga\nTrinidad and Tobago\nTunisia\nTurkiye\nTurkmenistan\nTurks and Caicos Islands\nTuvalu\nUganda\nUkraine\nUnited Arab Emirates\nUnited Kingdom\nUnited States\nUruguay\nUzbekistan\nVanuatu\nVenezuela\nViet Nam\nVirgin Islands\nWallis and Futuna Islands\nWestern Sahara\nYemen\nZambia\nZimbabwe\n

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Geography> Thailand Surface area (square km) 513,120 (2021) [52/216countries] Land area (sq. km) 510,890 (2021) [50/216countries] Agricultural land (% of land area) 46.0% (2021) [73/210countries] Forest area (sq. km) 198,370 (2021) [31/214countries] Forest area (% of land area) 38.8% (2021) [80/214countries] Coastline (km) 3,219 (2019) [35/230countries] Population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population) 17.5% (2015) [23/172countries] Average yearly temperature (degrees Celsius) 26.3 (1961-1990) [33/191countries] Average precipitation in depth (mm per year) 1,622 (2020) [51/182countries] % of those who think that water shortage is the most important environmental problem for their country 9.6% (2020) [6/28countries] % of those who think that using up natural resources is the most important environmental problem for their country 6.7% (2020) [22/28countries] Biodiversity> Thailand Bird species, threatened 62 (2018) [13/215countries] Fish species, threatened 106 (2018) [12/215countries] Mammal species, threatened 59 (2018) [9/215countries] Plant species (higher), threatened 159 (2018) [27/215countries] Terrestrial protected areas (% of total land area) 18.8% (2018) [79/211countries] Marine protected areas (% of territorial waters) 1.9% (2018) [71/169countries] % of those who think that gene modification is very dangerous for the environment 38.7% (2020) [19/28countries] % of those who think that genetically modified foods are the most important environmental problem for their country 0.3% (2020) [28/28countries] Animals, environment and mankind> Thailand % of those who think that modern life harms the environment 74.6% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who think that environmental problems have a direct effect on their everyday life 54.2% (2020) [6/28countries] % of those who think that people worry too much about human progress harming the environment 50.2% (2020) [4/28countries] % of those who think that there are more important things in life than environment 47.4% (2020) [5/28countries] % of those who think that modern science will solve our environmental problems 56.1% (2020) [1/28countries] Environment and economy> Thailand % of those who would cut standard of living for the environment 23.9% (2020) [24/28countries] % of those who would pay much higher prices for the environment 21.1% (2020) [23/28countries] % of those who agree to an increase in taxes for the environment (5 choices) 18.8% (2020) [20/28countries] % of those who think that economic growth harms the environment 72.8% (2020) [1/28countries] % of those who think that people prioritize the environment too much over the economy 50.4% (2020) [1/28countries] % of those who think that economic growth is nexessary to protect the environment 70.6% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who would accept a reduction in the size of their country's protected nature areas 15.1% (2020) [10/28countries] % of those who would spend more money and time for the environment 34.2% (2020) [28/28countries] Environmental protection> Thailand Environmental Performance Index (world ranking) 91 (2024) [91/179countries] Degree of concern about environmental issues 3.30 (2020) [27/28countries] % of those who find it hard to know whether the way they live is helpful or harmful to the environment 35.6% (2020) [8/28countries] % of those who think that it is too difficult for them to do about the environment 32.6% (2020) [10/28countries] % of those who often avoid buying certain products for environmental reasons 29.7% (2020) [23/28countries] % of those who think that they cannot protect the environment without cooperation 32.1% (2020) [10/28countries] % of those who belong to environmental organization 2.6% (2020) [23/28countries] % of those who think that the environment is the most important issue for their country 1.6% (2020) [27/28countries] % of those who think that the best way of getting people to protect the environment is heavy fines 20.5% (2020) [15/28countries] % of those who would like to see more government spending in the environment 64.1% (2016) [8/35countries] % of those who agree that the government is responsible for imposing strict laws to make industry do less damage to the environment 93.6% (2016) [12/35countries] % of those who think that the best way of getting business and industry to protect the environment is heavy fines 51.4% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who have contributed to environmental groups in the last 5 years 7.3% (2020) [20/28countries] % of those who have signed a petition about an environmental issue in the last 5 years 6.1% (2020) [26/28countries] % of those who have taken part in a protest or demonstration about an environmental issue in the last 5 years 3.1% (2020) [18/28countries] CO2 and climate change> Thailand CO2 emissions (kilo tonnes) 265,479 (2020) [22/191countries] CO2 emissions per capita (metric tonnes) 3.71 (2020) [71/191countries] CO2 emissions (kg per PPP $ of GDP) 0.209 (2020) [54/181countries] % of those who think that the world�fs climate has not been changing 6.6% (2020) [4/28countries] % of those who think that the world�fs climate has been changing mostly due to natural processes 7.4% (2020) [14/28countries] % of those who think that the world�fs climate has been changing about equally due to natural processes and human activity 36.3% (2020) [18/28countries] % of those who think that the world�fs climate has been changing mostly due to human activity 49.8% (2020) [13/28countries] Estimate of the impacts of climate change for the world (0-10 scale) 3.05 (2020) [12/28countries] Estimate of the impacts of climate change for the country (0-10 scale) 3.15 (2020) [20/28countries] % of those who think that global warming is very dangerous for the environment 66.2% (2020) [13/28countries] % of those who think that climate change is the most important environmental problem for their country 10.3% (2020) [23/28countries] % of those whose neighbourhood was affected much by extreme weather events 7.0% (2020) [25/28countries] Energy> Thailand Coal supply per capita (kg) 268 (2020) [28/74countries] Crude oil supply per capita (kg) 781 (2020) [32/89countries] Natural gas supply per capita (million J) 24,839 (2020) [42/87countries] Primary energy sufficiency ratio 47.3% (2020) [47/63countries] Electric power supply per capita (kWh) 3,019 (2020) [56/95countries] Electricity production from oil, gas and coal sources, % of total 93.4% (2020) [21/97countries] Electricity production from hydroelectric sources, % of total 2.5% (2020) [74/86countries] Nuclear and radioactivity> Thailand % of those who think that nuclear power station is very dangerous for the environment 77.6% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who think that nuclear waste is the most important environmental problem for their country 0.3% (2020) [28/28countries] Environmental pollution> Thailand % of those who think that air pollution is the most important environmental problem for their country 37.2% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those whose neighbourhood was affected much by air pollution 15.0% (2020) [10/28countries] % of those who think that air pollution caused by cars is very dangerous for the environment 73.5% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who think that air pollution caused by industry is very dangerous for the environment 85.4% (2020) [4/28countries] % of those who think that water pollution is the most important environmental problem for their country 1.2% (2020) [28/28countries] % of those whose neighbourhood was affected much by water pollution 7.0% (2020) [14/28countries] % of those who think that water pollution is very dangerous for the environment 63.0% (2020) [17/28countries] % of those who think that chemicals and pesticides is the most important environmental problem for their country 13.0% (2020) [7/28countries] % of those who think that pesticides and chemicals are very dangerous for the environment 79.4% (2020) [2/28countries] % of those who think that many claims of environmental threats are exaggerated 25.5% (2020) [8/28countries] Waste and cleanness> Thailand Proportion of population using safely-managed sanitation services (%) 26% (2020) [91/115countries] % of those who think that domestic waste disposal is the most important environmental problem for their country 15.9% (2020) [7/28countries] % of those who always sort things for recycling 13.6% (2020) [27/28countries]