Thailand - Current Account Balance

For Thailand, the Bank of Thailand compiles monthly summaries of major indicators. The data are usually released in the first week of the month for the previous month.

As of 2026, Data Buffet carries monetary aggregates, detailed balance of payments, external trade (imports and exports) by partner country, trade indexes of value and volume. These subsets are discontinued: detailed industrial production, agricultural production, producer price index, and detailed foreign direct investment.

Active:

• Measurements:
  • Millions of Thai baht (Mil. THB)
  • Millions of U.S. dollars (Mil. USD)
  • Fixed-base index relative to 2012 (Index 2012=100)
• Adjustment: Not seasonally adjusted (NSA)
• Native frequency: Monthly
• Start date: As early as 1985m1

Predecessor(s)

• Industrial production
• PPI
• Foreign direct investment

Global concept aliases:

• TAB
• TRIG

The source writes:

EC_XT_002_S2 Trade classified by country/economic territory

• Lag time: 1 month
  Release schedule: The last business day of the following month
• Source of data: Customs Department, Ministry of Finance

Foreign trade statistics refer to transactions involving movements of goods out of or into the Kingdom of Thailand over a specific time period. The figures cover all categories of goods that enter or leave the Kingdom of Thailand and pass through customs formalities at any of the Customs Houses and representative offices, either via land, sea or air transport. The data also include postal packages but do not include smuggled goods and products procured on carriers at sea.

Bank of Thailand obtains electronic copy of the data and tabulates them into export and import tables. Value of exports and imports displayed in this table is in Baht equivalent as obtained directly from the Customs. Country classification is based on country of origin (for imports) and country of destination (for exports).

The principle of "passive confidentiality" is applied; i.e., data would be suppressed at the request of entities who are concerned that their interests would be harmed by the level of detail disseminated.

EC_EI_019 Trade indices and terms of trade

• Source: Ministry of Commerce and Bank of Thailand
• Total export and import value indices are calculated based on total exports and imports (BOP basis).
• Volume indices derived from figures in terms of US dollar and baht are equal.
• Price indices (in terms of baht) = value indices (in terms of baht) / volume indices *100.
• The entire series of indices have been rescaled to 2012 = 100, in line with export and import price indices compiled by the Bureau of Trade and Economic Indices, Ministry of Commerce.

EC_EI_020 Trade indices and terms of trade (US$)

• Price indices (in terms of US dollar) are obtained from Bureau of Trade and Economic Indices (BTEI), Ministry of Commerce.
• Volume indices = value indices (in terms of US dollar) / price indices (in terms of US dollar)*100

Moody's Analytics supplements

For the balance of payments current accounts balance, we construct a seasonally adjusted counterpart.

Data are revised when new data becomes available.

Trade classified by country/economic territory: Monthly figures of the first half of the year are revised at the end of December. Monthly figures of the entire year are revised again at the end of June of the following year.

Further reading

Metadata at the source:

• EC_XT_002_S2 Trade classified by country/economic territory (pdf)

Data tables at the source:

• EC_XT_046 Balance of Payments (Summary)
• EC_XT_047 Balance of Payments (Summary) (US$)
• EC_EI_019 Trade Indices and Terms of Trade
• EC_EI_020 Trade Indices and Terms of Trade (US$)
• EC_MB_004 Monetary Aggregates and Components (1970-2006)

At IMF (SDDS):

• Depository corporations survey
• Balance of payments
• Merchandise trade

• Sep 2006 - Initial version.
• 4 Jun 2026, Phillip Thorne - Properties, Methodology, Further reading.