firecat69 Posted February 28, 2015 Posted February 28, 2015 Did not realize the numbers of non Thais in BKK was so high. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-peddicord/retire-to-bangkok_b_6653708.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592 vinapu 1 Quote
mahjongguy Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 "Bangkok has a population of roughly eight million people; about 25 percent of them are citizens from other countries, including the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, and Japan. About a third of the total Western population of the city is American." I have to wonder where the author got numbers like that? Couldn't figure out how to use Google so she just hit random keys on her calculator? ChristianPFC 1 Quote
fedssocr Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Most of them are probably Lao, Cambodian and from Myanmar. Quote
Guest Posted March 1, 2015 Posted March 1, 2015 Wikipedia: The city of Bangkok has a population of 8,280,925 according to the 2010 census, or 12.6 percent of the national population.[4] However, there are only 5,701,394 registered residents, belonging to 2,400,540 households.[51] A large number of Bangkok's daytime population commutes from surrounding provinces in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, the total population of which is 14,565,547. Bangkok is a cosmopolitan city; the census showed that it is home to 81,570 Japanese and 55,893 Chinese nationals, as well as 117,071 expatriates from other Asian countries, 48,341 from Europe, 23,418 from the Americas, 5,289 from Australia and 3,022 from Africa. Immigrants from neighbouring countries include 303,595 Burmese, 63,438 Cambodians and 18,126 Lao.[52] That comes to somewhere roughly in excess of 600,000, so it would require a huge calculation error to get to 25%. Of course, as a data source, neither Wikipedia nor journalists are infallible. When it comes to maths, some journalists are very weak and sometimes publish numbers that contradict what's written elsewhere in the article. Quote
