Over the years, Thailand has seen several shifts
in its population policy that aimed at reducing
fertility rates that were considered to be too
high, to the current policy of maintaining fertility
at replacement level as stated in the Ninth and
Tenth National Plans, covering the periods 2002-
2006 and 2007-2011 respectively. But given the
dramatic changes in the current context where
fertility has dropped to startlingly low levels, with
implications for population aging, decrease in the
size of workforce and eventual population decline,
there is a need to reconsider Thailand’s population
policy and explore and deliberate upon different
options and strategies.