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

locations may be priced at upwards of 10 million Baht per rai or 25,000 per sq wa,
fifty times as much as farm land, and in prime-urban locations, it may reach
400 million Baht per rai or 30 million US dollars per acre.

Table 8 Estimated distribution of private land ownership by household type,
2018

Households Land Per household
area value area Value
Owner/ (per
category (millions) cent) (million (trillion (million (million
rai) Baht) rai) Baht)

Owner-occupiers 14.7 64 94 20 6.4 1.4
farm owners 2.6 11 87 14 32.1 5.5

low income 5.9 25 3 1 0.5 0.1
middle income 6.2 27 4 5 0.7 0.8
Landowners 0.2 1 34 14 154.8 65.4

Landless 8.4 36 - - - -
All households 23.2 100 129 35 5.6 1.5

Source: calculated from data in Table 7

Considering area and price, estimates in Table 8 imply that 25% of
households have small residential plots or shares in plots with an average value
(excluding buildings) of 100,000 Baht per family and a further 27% are owner-
occupiers with small businesses or salaried employment, owning land with an
average value of 800,000 Baht per family. Some 11% of households are farmers
owning land worth an average of 5 million Baht each. The top 1% of households
own land directly or through business partnerships and companies worth an
average of over 60 million Baht per family. Some 8 million households or 36 %
of the total have no registered land title. This landless group plus the 5.9 million
low income households who have very little land constitute about 61 % of total
households.

Each group has a different interest in the way land is registered, zoned
and taxed and with continued urbanisation the pattern will continue to change.
New generations may adjust to living in rented accommodation and high rise in
locations nearer to city centers or adapt to commuter life as mass transit systems

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