In 2017, Thailand's median household income was ฿26,946 per month.[131]: 1 Top quintile households had a 45.0% share of all income, while bottom quintile households had 7.1%.[131]: 4 There were 26.9 million persons who had the bottom 40% of income earning less than ฿5,344 per person per month.[132]: 5 During 2013–2014 Thai political crisis, a survey found that anti-government PDRC mostly (32%) had a monthly income of more than ฿50,000, while pro-government UDD mostly (27%) had between ฿10,000 and ฿20,000.[133]: 7
In 2014, Credit Suisse reported that Thailand was the world's third most unequal country, behind Russia and India.[134] The top 10% richest held 79% of the country's assets.[134] The top 1% richest held 58% of the assets.[134] Thai 50 richest families had a total net worth accounting to 30% of GDP.[134]
In 2016, 5.81 million people lived in poverty, or 11.6 million people (17.2% of population) if "near poor" is included.[132]: 1 Proportion of the poor relative to total population in each region was 12.96% in the Northeast, 12.35% in the South, and 9.83% in the North.[132]: 2 In 2017, there were 14 million people who applied for social welfare (yearly income of less than ฿100,000 was required).[134] At the end of 2017, Thailand's total household debt was ฿11.76 trillion.[121]: 5 In 2010, 3% of all household were bankrupt.[123]: 5 In 2016, there were estimated 30,000 homeless persons in the country.[135]