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The International Journal of the Royal Society of Thailand
Volume XII, 2020

The following sections set out data sources and assumptions used to
estimate the value of private land in Thailand today and the distribution of uses,
area and value across socio-economic classes, here represented by household

groups.

Land use and title

Private ownership of land registered with the Department of Lands
increased from 23.4 million rai in 1960 to 128.6 million rai in 2018. These figures
are the ones we shall use as a basis for estimating the total value of private land.
Rights with respect to state land such as those conferred by long-term concessions
and the Agricultural Land Reform scheme are excluded from this valuation.
To build a picture of the pattern of use of private land (Table 2 below)

we refer to statistics of land use published by the Land Development Department
over a succession of two or three year periods since the year 2000. These show a
very large area of agricultural use, well in excess of the total area registered as
private title by the Department of Lands. The figure of 64 million rai in Table 2
for farming on state land in 2018 includes 36 million rai allocated by the
Agricultural Land Reform Office (ALRO), and a further 26 million rai of
concessions for plantations on state land as well as formal and informal settlements
and encroachment in reserved forest areas.

The 'built' area of 19 million rai in 2018 includes roads and other transport
infrastructure and a wide range of rural and urban residential and community
uses. The share of state land in the ‘built̓ total is based on information
published by the Treasury Department. Waste land, quarries and areas of water
are assumed to be mostly owned by the state.

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