Thailands Unemployment Rate

Thailand's unemployment rate fell to 1.8% in the second quarter of the year according to this report.

It has to be quite amazing when the rest of the world is reaching new highs in unemployment. Spain over 15%, USA over 9%, UK over 7%.

Thailand from all appearances has the lowest unemployment rate in the world. The statistic is hard to accept when you look around into every day life.

Then I suppose it's all in how you do the math. 1+1=2 or 1+1=11.

To get a better understanding why the rate is so low,
I looked at the last official Thai 2000 census .

According to that census 81% of the population is employed in agriculture.
Apparently every adult with a farm as an address is considered employed.