Editing Demographics of Thailand (section)

===Immigration===
The largest foreign community are the Burmese, followed by the Cambodians and Laotians.<ref name=IPSR/>

{{As of|March 2018}}, Thai government data showed that over 770,900 Cambodian migrants, meaning five percent of the total population of Cambodia, currently live in Thailand. Some NGOs estimate that the actual number may be up to one million.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wangkiat |first1=Paritta |title=Migrants face changing climate |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/1495430/migrants-face-changing-climate |access-date=1 July 2018 |work=Bangkok Post |date=1 July 2018}}</ref>

Laotians are particularly numerous considering the small size of Laos' population, about seven million, due to the lack of a language barrier. The Chinese expatriate employee population in Thailand, mostly Bangkok, has doubled from 2011 to 2016, making it the largest foreign community in Thailand not originating in a neighbouring country. Chinese hold 13.3 percent of all work permits issued in Thailand, an increase of almost one-fifth since 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Songwanich|first1=Suwatchai|title=Chinese expat community swells in Thailand|url=https://www.nationthailand.com/news/opinion/30303702|access-date=9 January 2017|work=The Nation|department=Opinion|date=9 January 2017|archive-date=9 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170109125053/http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/opinion/30303702|url-status=live}}</ref> Japanese expats are on the decline, and now rank sixth, behind Chinese and British. One in every four foreigners working in Thailand formerly were Japanese, and the figure has now dropped slightly to 22.8 percent of the foreign workforce as of late 2016.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Pitchon|first1=James|title=Changing Expat Profile Presents Challenges|url=http://www.cbre.co.th/en/News/Article/Changing-Expat-Profile-Presents-Challenges|website=CBRE Thailand|access-date=9 January 2017|date=16 November 2016}}</ref>

Foreign residents in Thailand, according to the 2010 Census. It was found that there were 2,581,141 of foreign origins, composing around 3.87 percent of Thailand's population.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Population of Thailand in 2010| url=http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/thailand-population/|work=worldometers.info|access-date=June 30, 2017}}</ref> Migrants from [[Cambodia]], [[Laos]] and [[Myanmar]], the most prevalent, accounted for 1.8 million foreigners.<ref name=IPSR>{{Cite web|title=ชาวต่างชาติในเมืองไทยเป็นใครบ้าง? (Foreigners in Thailand)|url=http://www.ms.ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/ConferenceXI/Download/Book/447-IPSR-Conference-A12-fulltext.pdf|work=Institute for Population and Social Research – Mahidol University|first=Patama|last=Vapattanawong|access-date=June 30, 2017|archive-date=April 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412025602/http://www.ms.ipsr.mahidol.ac.th/ConferenceXI/Download/Book/447-IPSR-Conference-A12-fulltext.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Research by [[Kasikorn Bank]] estimated that in 2016, there were 68,300 foreigners over 50 years old—the minimum age for a retirement visa—holding long-stay visas living in Thailand, a 9% increase over the preceding two years. In 2018, Thailand issued almost 80,000 retirement visas, an increase of 30% from 2014, with Britons accounting for the majority of the new visas.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Styllis |first1=George |title=Thailand's foreign retirees see their good life slip away |url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Thailand-s-foreign-retirees-see-their-good-life-slip-away |access-date=6 March 2020 |work=Nikkei Asian Review |date=5 March 2020}}</ref>

In 2010 there were 27,357 Westerners living in the northeastern region, 90 percent living with Thai spouses, according to research by the College of Population Studies at [[Chulalongkorn University]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |title=Clinic opens for Isan/farang matches |url=https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1527422/clinic-opens-for-isan-farang-matches |access-date=24 August 2018 |work=Bangkok Post |date=24 August 2018}}</ref>

As of 2016, up to 145,000 Taiwanese expatriates live in Thailand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ocac.gov.tw/OCAC/File/Attach/313/File_82347.pdf|script-title=zh:2016僑務統計年報|trans-title=Statistical Yearbook of the Overseas Community Affairs Council|publisher=Overseas Community Affairs Council|date=2017-09-01|access-date=2017-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171016175222/http://www.ocac.gov.tw/OCAC/File/Attach/313/File_82347.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-16|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Foreign residents by country of origin 2010<ref name=IPSR/>
! Nationality!! Population !! Percentage
|-
| {{Flag icon|Myanmar}} [[Burmese in Thailand|Myanmar]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 1,292,686
| {{percentage bar|50.08}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Cambodia}} [[Cambodia]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 281,292
| {{percentage bar|10.90}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Laos}} [[Laos]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 222,432
| {{percentage bar|8.62}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|China}} [[China]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 141,553
| {{percentage bar|5.48}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|United Kingdom}} [[United Kingdom]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 85,836
| {{percentage bar|3.33}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Japan}} [[Japanese migration to Thailand|Japan]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 80,898
| {{percentage bar|3.13}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|India}} [[Indians in Thailand|India]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 46,326
| {{percentage bar|1.80}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|United States}} [[United States]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 40,230
| {{percentage bar|1.56}}
|-
|{{Flagicon|Netherlands}} [[Netherlands]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 25,000
| {{percentage bar|1.34}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Germany}} [[Germany]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 24,383
| {{percentage bar|0.94}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|France}} [[France]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 22,486
| {{percentage bar|0.87}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Vietnam}} [[Vietnam]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 17,662
| {{percentage bar|0.68}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Philippines}} [[Philippines]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 17,574
| {{percentage bar|0.68}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Malaysia}} [[Malaysia]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 8,182
| {{percentage bar|0.32}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Norway}} [[Norway]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,952
| {{percentage bar|0.11}}
|-
| {{Flag icon|Sweden}} [[Sweden]]
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,952
| {{percentage bar|0.11}}
|-
| Others
| style="text-align: right;" | 174,236
| {{percentage bar|6.75}}
|-
| Stateless
| style="text-align: right;" | 117,315
| {{percentage bar|4.54}}
|-
| Unknown
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,147
| {{percentage bar|0.08}}
|-
! style="text-align: left;" | Total population
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,581,141
| {{percentage bar|100.00}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ Foreign Expats by regions 2010<ref name=IPSR/>
|-
! scope="col" | Region
! scope="col" | Population
! scope="col" | Percentage
|-
| [[Southeast Asia]]
| style="text-align: right; | 1,845,788
| {{percentage bar|71.51}}
|-
| [[East Asia]]
| style="text-align: right; | 249,204
| {{percentage bar|9.65}}
|-
| [[Europe]]
| style="text-align: right; | 200,564
| {{percentage bar|7.77}}
|-
| [[South Asia]]
| style="text-align: right; | 78,454
| {{percentage bar|3.04}}
|-
| [[Northern America]]
| style="text-align: right; | 46,279
| {{percentage bar|1.79}}
|-
| [[Australia]] and [[Oceania]]
| style="text-align: right; | 13,233
| {{percentage bar|0.51}}
|-
| [[Central and South America]]
| style="text-align: right; | 10,608
| {{percentage bar|0.41}}
|-
| [[Africa]]
| style="text-align: right; | 8,166
| {{percentage bar|0.32}}
|-
| [[Western Asia]]
| style="text-align: right; | 6,634
| {{percentage bar|0.26}}
|-
| [[Central Asia]]
| style="text-align: right; | 2,749
| {{percentage bar|0.11}}
|-
| Stateless
| style="text-align: right;" | 117,315
| {{percentage bar|4.54}}
|-
| Unknown
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,147
| {{percentage bar|0.08}}
|-
! style="text-align: left" | Total population
| style="text-align: right;" | 2,581,141
| {{percentage bar|100.00}}
|}