THAI STATISTICS

[HansMartin]

From the 2006 Economist "Pocket World In Figures"

#50 -- Land Area --513,000 sq. km. (between Yemen & Spain)
#19 -- Pop. --62.8M (between Iran & France)
#33 -- Bangkok -- largest City @6.5M (yeah rignt, but what happpens you add the suburbs in !!!)
#34 -- World Economy -- 143.0$bn (between Portugal and Iran{love those petro $$s})
#19 -- Balance of Trade Surplus -- 7,953$m (this compares to the US defecit of -530,660$m)
#6 -- Rice Production --18,011,000 tonnes
#8 -- Rice Consumption -- 9,470,000 tonnes (nice surplus!!!!)
#13 -- Most crowded roads --108.6 vehicles per km (all of which are in BKK)
#48 -- Most people injured in vehicle acccidents -- 40 per 100m vehicle-km
#13 -- People killed in vehicle accidents -- 13 per 100m vehicle-km (lots of serious accidents)
#18 -- Most tourist arrivals --10,082,000
#19 -- Most tourists receipts -- $7,901,000 (This doesn't make sense--hardly covers the bar bill!!!). Maye $b instead of $m
#1 -- Watching TV -- 22.4 hours per week
#2 -- Reading -- 9.4 hours per week
Is it double dipping if you read and watch TV at the same time. What about when the newscasters READ the newspaper on TV. My wife gets TV videos from Thailand and ALWAYS does the above.
#4-- Listening to radio -- 13.3 hours per week
#2 -- On computer/internet -- 11.7 hours per week
That takes care of 56.8 hours per week. What do the Thai do the rest of the time?

[Burger]

#2 -- Reading -- 9.4 hours per week

Ah, but 9.3 of those hours are for reading cartoon comics


#1 -- Sleeping -- 23.5 hours per day.


Interesting stuff Hans.

Burger

[Teabone]

That takes care of 56.8 hours per week. What do the Thai do the rest of the time?

EATING -

Somtam,
Noodle Soup,
Bits of Chicken even the Chicken didn't know it had,
Insects......