Poverty and Inequality in Thailand, 2019

The reporter reported that The National Economic and Social Development Council (NESDB) has published a report on the analysis of the situation of poverty and inequality in Thailand 2019, which explores the situation of poverty and inequality in Thailand during 2018-19. An interesting point is The situation of poverty in 2019 has improved. The proportion of poor people fell from 9.85% in 2018, or 6.7 million, to 6.24% in 2019, or 4.3 million as a result of economic expansion. And the effect of expanding government measures to help low-income people, such as the state welfare card program And projects to strengthen the foundation economy, etc., resulting in the overall income of Thai people increasing to 9,847 baht per person per month. Increased from the year 2017 with income 9,614 baht or an increase of 2.42%

In addition, the 6.24% poverty ratio has enabled Thailand to meet the poverty-solving target set out in the 12th National Development Plan, which aims to reduce the population under the poverty line to 6.5% at At the end of the 64th development plan, although the proportion of the poor as a whole is likely to decline. But keeping the poverty ratio low until the end of the 12th Development Plan continues to monitor the situation as Thailand faces the COVID-19 crisis in 2020 That affect the economy and employment is wide And may have lasting impacts that make the situation of poverty worse. And will increase the number of poor people in year 63

In addition, although the poor have decreased, both the poor and the less. And the very poor, but the “almost poor” there are many when considering “almost the poor” or the non-poor population. But there are consumption expenditures close to the poverty line. It can be said that this population is at risk of being very poor. If there are problems that affect such as illness, unemployment, accident, etc. It was found that in the year ’19 “almost poor” there were 5.40 million people, or accounted for 7.79% of the entire population Which still needs to be monitored and must have ongoing measures to take care of and help In order not to fall into the poor.

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