●Number of Japanese residents in Thailand (2023: Ministry of Foreign Affairs statistics)

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan's Survey of the Number of Japanese Residents Overseas, the number of Japanese nationals residing in Thailand was 72,308 (October 2023), a decrease of 10,266 compared to 82,574 (October 2021).

In 2017, the number of Japanese people by occupation was media (138 people), government employees (369 people), free workers (892 people), study abroad, research, and teachers (584 people), and employees of private companies ((= work permit/certificate recipients (20,252 people)), but the data after that could not be confirmed.

February 2022 issue "Local Information in Thailand" https://www.f-abc.org/news/101/, written in Japanese.

●An estimated actual number of Japanese residents in Thailand (2023: when the number of work permits and recipients is taken into account)

i) As of 2023, the number of people receiving work permits and recipients (employees of private companies) is 34,300 Chinese, and 24,230 are Japanese.

ii) The number of Japanese nationals receiving work permits decreased from 35,136 in 2014 to 10,906 in 2023.

iii) Based on data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the number of family members accompanying work permit holders is 0.6, so the total number of Japanese nationals involved in private companies is about 38,768. Even adding the number of permanent residents (2,414 in 2023) to this, the estimated number is 41,182, so the actual number of Japanese residing in Thailand is about 42,000 ~ 45,000 at most.

 Number of Work Permit Holders in Thailand:2023 by Country