Macroeconomic Outlook Report: Thailand

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from $500	46 Pages	GlobalData	February, 2025	GBDT19883653

Best Price Guarantee
Price	from $500
Length	46 Pages
Publisher	GlobalData
Published Date	February, 2025
SKU	GBDT19883653

Macroeconomic Outlook Report: Thailand

Summary

Mining, manufacturing, and utilities activities contributed 30.2% to the gross value added (GVA) in 2024, followed by wholesale, retail, and hotel activities (21.1%) and financial intermediation, real estate, and business activities (14.8%). In nominal terms, the three sectors are expected to grow by 3.6%, 5.0%, and 4.9%, respectively, in 2025.

Bangkok metropolitan region accounted for 20.5% of Thailand’s gross domestic product and 7.6% of the country’s population in 2024, according to GlobalData cities database estimates.

The SET Index exhibited a volatile trend over the past year. As of January 2, 2025, the index stood at 1,381.3, compared to 1,433.4 on January 2, 2024.

Scope

Macroeconomic Country Outlook Reports evaluate a country's investment potential through its political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) framework. This comprehensive analysis offers a holistic view of the economy, serving as a strategic tool to understand market dynamics, business potential, and operational direction. Each PESTLE factor is examined based on four parameters: current strengths, current challenges, future prospects, and future risks. These insights support strategic planning by highlighting opportunities and risks within the economy, helping businesses and investors make informed decisions. The report aims to provide a detailed understanding of the country's macroeconomic environment to facilitate effective decision-making and strategy development.

Reasons to Buy

Macroeconomic Outlook Report identifies the potentials of the country as an investment destination by analyzing the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure.
PESTLE Insights provides 360 degree view of the economy which can be used as a strategic tool to understand the market dynamics, business potentials and direction of operations
Along with providing the country’s snapshot, the report captures the risk factors pertaining to the macroeconomic risks, political environment, legal environment, demographic and social structure effectiveness, technology & infrastructure and natural and geographic aspects that might impact business.
This report also highlights key clusters/cities which contribute significantly to the country GDP and population along with major companies’ presence in these areas.

Did You Know?: Country Highlights; Key Economic Updates; Country Snapshot; Political Landscape; Economic Landscape; Social Landscape; Technological Landscape; Legal Landscape; Environmental Landscape; Outlook
List of Figures: Exhibit 1: Thailand’s Performance in Terms of its Country Risk Analysis in Comparison to Asia-pacific and the World Averages; Exhibit 2: Performance Overview (Score: 0-100); Exhibit 3: Broad Categories and Weights Behind the Index; Exhibit 4: Thailand Stock Exchange Index - SET Index (January 2024 - January 2025); Exhibit 5: Key Sectors’ Contribution to the Economy; Exhibit 6: FDI Inflows, FDI Outflows, FDI Inward Stock and FDI Outward Stock (2019-23); Exhibit 7: Greenfield FDI Projects and Net Cross-border M&A Deals (2019-23); Exhibit 8: Key Infrastructure Indicators; Exhibit 9: Real GDP and Household Consumption Growth Rate (2020-27f); Exhibit 10: Real GDP Growth Rate Comparison (2024e); Exhibit 11: Volume of Exports and Imports Growth (2020-27f); Exhibit 12: Current Account Balance (2020-27f); Exhibit 13: Top Three Commodity Exports, % of Total Exports (2019-23); Exhibit 14: Exports of Electrical Machinery and Equipment and Parts Thereof, % Share of the World’s Total (2023); Exhibit 15: Interest Rates (January 2020 - January 2025); Exhibit 16: Exchange Rate and Inflation (2020-27f); Exhibit 17: General Government Deficit (2020-27f); Exhibit 18: General Government Debt (2020-27f); Exhibit 19: Unemployment Rate (2020-27f); Exhibit 20: Average Annual Wages (2020-27f); Exhibit 21: Labor Cost Index (2020-27f); Exhibit 22: Rural/Urban Share of Total Population (2005, 2020, 2025f, 2030f); Exhibit 23: Age-group Share of Total Population (2005, 2020, 2025f, 2030f); Exhibit 24: Gender Split (2005, 2020, 2025f, 2030f); Exhibit 25: Internet Users as a Percentage of Total Population, Mobile Penetration Rate and Broadband Penetration Rate (2024e); Exhibit 26: Number of Patents Granted per Million Population (2023); Exhibit 27: High-technology Exports, % of Manufactured Exports (2023 or latest); Exhibit 28: Rule of Law (Rankings) 2024; Exhibit 29: Corruption Perceptions Index (Rankings) (2023); Exhibit 30: Renewable Energy Capacity (2020-24e); Exhibit 31: CO2e Emissions (2019-23)