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Capability agenda

Thailand

Generated 2026-10-03

The frame includes 125 countries. Each dimension is scored from 0 to 100, with no overall ranking, and each score shows its confidence beside it. Read the known limits of the data before you quote a score.

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Where Thailand stands

DimensionScoreConfidenceTrend
Anticipation46.20.46+8.6 over 10 years using 2 indicators
Agency47.20.56no trend
Coordination80.30.41no trend
Trust56.60.50no trend
Learning42.40.55no trend
Experimentation13.80.33+0.2 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Adaptability87.60.62no trend
Building64.80.57-0.4 over 10 years using 3 indicators
Shared Purpose65.40.43+3.5 over 10 years using 2 indicators

Score

  • weakNear the floor of the frame. Check the confidence before reading anything into it.0 to 25
  • below middleIn the lower half of the frame.25 to 50
  • above middleIn the upper half of the frame.50 to 75
  • strongNear the top of the frame on this dimension.75 and above

Confidence

  • very thin0.00 to 0.25

    The score rests on one or two indicators. Do not quote it on its own.

  • thin0.25 to 0.45

    A minority of indicators, or evidence old enough to have moved. Read with care.

  • usable0.45 to 0.65

    Enough evidence to compare countries, with known holes.

  • good0.65 and above

    Most indicators observed, recent, from official or intergovernmental sources.

Capability over time

Select a dimension to see how Thailandโ€™s comparable evidence has moved over time. The vertical scale is the current comparison frame, from 0 to 100.

Dimension

Period

Capability position in the current frame0 to 100
02550751001996200120062011201620212026

Experimentation 1996 โ†’ 2026: 2.5 to 16.7 (+14.2) over 30 years using 2 indicators

Agenda items on this timeline

19601970198019902000201020202026
  • 2016Bank of Thailand regulatory sandbox

Historical values use todayโ€™s frame from 0 to 100 and a matched basket of indicators. They show movement in the available evidence, not an overall development score. Dated agenda items appear on a separate timeline and do not change the score. A missing line means the evidence does not support a comparable trend for that dimension.

What to raise

These are the lowest scores with usable evidence. Thin evidence appears below.

Learning

42.40.55

How effectively does the country acquire, distribute, and update knowledge?

Uses 3 observed indicators. no trend.

Highest usable scores: Singapore 84.2, Norway 83.4, New Zealand 83.

Related deliveries in other countries: SkillsFuture Credit (Singapore); The public library system (Finland); Kartu Prakerja, a national lifelong-learning delivery system (Indonesia); Compte personnel de formation (France); Programa Qualifica and Portugal's adult-learning network (Portugal); Novas Oportunidades, and the qualification-policy interruption (Portugal); SWAYAM national online-course platform (India); SETAs and workplace-based learning delivery (South Africa); MEB public lifelong-learning network (Turkey); Kenya's adult education centres, and their halving (Kenya); Rwanda's adult literacy centres, and their decline (Rwanda); Integrated Functional Adult Education, and its erosion (Ethiopia); Instituto Tรฉcnico de Capacitaciรณn y Productividad (INTECAP) (Guatemala); INFOTEP national technical and vocational training (Dominican Republic); Campaรฑa Nacional de Alfabetizaciรณn (Cuba); VET FEE-HELP, and its abolition (Australia); Adult education allowance (aikuiskoulutustuki), and its abolition (Finland); INEFOP, the tripartite national training institute (Uruguay); Franquicia Tributaria SENCE, and its erosion (Chile); Employer and in-work training under Employment Insurance, and its erosion (South Korea); TESDA technical-vocational training at national scale (Philippines); INADEH national vocational training (Panama); Yo, sรญ puedo national literacy campaign and post-literacy programme (Bolivia); Project 1956 vocational training for rural workers (Vietnam); Bildungsprรคmie training voucher, and its end (Germany); Aufstiegs-BAfรถG, upgrading training support (Germany); Formaciรณn programada por las empresas (FUNDAE training credit) (Spain); Community Education and Training colleges, and their erosion (South Africa); SENA complementary training (formaciรณn complementaria) (Colombia); Vocational skills upgrading action, 2019-2021 (China); INA national vocational training, and its contraction (Costa Rica); Kunskapslyftet adult education initiative (Sweden); Springboard+ upskilling programme (Ireland); State-administered adult education under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and its erosion (United States); STAP-budget training grant, abolished in 2024 (Netherlands); INEA adult basic education (Mexico); Hello Training, public vocational training (Japan); Educaรงรฃo de Jovens e Adultos (EJA), and its erosion (Brazil); Government-funded adult further education in England, and its erosion (United Kingdom); Educaciรณn Bรกsica Alternativa (EBA), and its erosion (Peru); Upper secondary education for adults in non-stationary study (Estonia); Adult literacy education under the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education (Nigeria); Skills Development under the Labour Market Development Agreements, and its 2024-25 funding cut (Canada); Instituto Nacional de Formaciรณn Profesional (INFOP) (Honduras); Ministry of Labour Vocational Training Division adult courses (Israel); Educaciรณn Permanente para personas jรณvenes y adultas (MEC) (Paraguay); National literacy campaigns, 2010-2015 (Haiti); County and city general secondary schools for adults (licea ogรณlnoksztaล‚cฤ…ce dla dorosล‚ych) (Poland); Kolej Komuniti part-time and lifelong-learning (Pembelajaran Sepanjang Hayat) courses (Malaysia); Fondo nuove competenze (Italy); National adult literacy projects of the Bureau of Non-Formal Education, and their erosion (Bangladesh); Functional Adult Literacy programme, and its decline (Uganda); Integrated Community-Based Adult Education (MEMKWA), and its decline (Tanzania); National Functional Literacy Programme, and its erosion (Ghana); Centres d'alphabรฉtisation, and their erosion (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Adult literacy centres financed through FONAENF, and their erosion (Burkina Faso); National Adult Literacy Programme (Malawi); Mauritius Institute of Training and Development part-time training (Mauritius); NAMCOL secondary education programme for out-of-school learners (Namibia); Alfabetizaรงรฃo e Educaรงรฃo de Adultos (public adult literacy and adult primary education), and its decline (Mozambique); Sistema Nacional de Formaรงรฃo Profissional under INEFOP (Angola); Institut National de Prรฉparation Professionnelle (INPP) (Democratic Republic of the Congo); AMS training measures (Schulungen) for jobseekers (Austria); Human Resource Development Authority (HRDA) subsidised training programmes (Cyprus); Arbejdsmarkedsuddannelser (AMU), adult vocational training courses, and their decline (Denmark); Vauฤeri za obrazovanje, training vouchers of the Croatian Employment Service (Croatia); Mฤcฤซbas pieauguลกajiem, the ESF training programme for employed adults 2017 to 2023 (Latvia); Grunnskoleopplรฆring for voksne, municipal primary and lower secondary education for adults (Norway); Zruฤnosti pre trh prรกce, retraining and training contributions of the labour offices (Slovakia); Upper secondary education for adults (srednjeลกolsko izobraลพevanje odraslih) (Slovenia); Public vocational training centres of the National Agency for Employment and Skills (Albania); Employment Agency adult training, including the DI-GI digital skills vouchers (Bulgaria); ANOFM voucher-based vocational training for the unemployed (Moldova); ANOFM national vocational training plan, and its fall after 2023 (Romania); National Employment Service labour market training, and its 2025 non-delivery (Serbia); Programme national d'enseignement des adultes (national adult education programme) (Tunisia); Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l'Analphabetisme literacy and post-literacy programmes (Morocco); Federal project Sodeystvie zanyatosti (Employment Promotion) vocational training of adults (Russia); Short-term vocational training of the unemployed in monocentres and district vocational training centres (Uzbekistan); Self-Employment Program business training (Azerbaijan); HEART/NSTA Trust training enrolment (Jamaica); Enhanced Vocational Education and Training (EVENT II) short-term training (Nepal); Adult and community education at tertiary providers, and its halving (New Zealand); NCHD Adult Literacy Programme, and its collapse after 2013 (Pakistan); Youth Training and Employment Partnership Programme (YTEPP), and its shrinking enrolment (Trinidad and Tobago); Bildungskarenz with Weiterbildungsgeld, and its abolition (Austria).

Missing indicators: Adult learning participation.

Anticipation

46.20.46

How capable is the country of identifying and preparing for emerging change?

Uses 2 observed indicators. +8.6 over 10 years using 2 indicators.

Highest usable scores: Denmark 98.1, Norway 97.2, Switzerland 93.4.

Related deliveries in other countries: Embrapa, a fifty-year bet on tropical agriculture (Brazil); The Delta Programme and its fund (Netherlands); Lei de Informรกtica, a sectoral industrial policy (Brazil); CGEE, the strategic studies center (Brazil); Centre for Strategic Futures, foresight inside government (Singapore); Legally binding carbon budgets (United Kingdom); Fukushima decommissioning roadmap, a 30โ€“40-year risk-reduction horizon (Japan); National basic-research funding allocation (China); PLANAPP and REPLAN, a centre-of-government foresight network (Portugal); Labour Market Intelligence Programme and forward skills planning (South Africa); Government Report on the Future and the parliamentary Committee for the Future (Finland); Foresight Centre at the Riigikogu (Arenguseire Keskus) (Estonia); Office of Technology Assessment, defunded and closed in 1995 (United States); Rzฤ…dowe Centrum Studiรณw Strategicznych, liquidated in 2006 (Poland); Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB) (Germany); National Assembly Futures Institute (South Korea); Federal Chancellery situation and environment analysis (Perspektivstab) (Switzerland); Senate foresight delegation (Dรฉlรฉgation sรฉnatoriale ร  la prospective) (France); Senate Commission on Future Challenges, Science, Technology and Innovation (Chile); Policy Horizons Canada, the federal foresight unit, and its 2024 disruption scan (Canada); Framtidskommissionen, the Prime Minister's time-limited future commission (Sweden); National Planning Commission foresight work for Malawi 2063 (Malawi); Bureau National de la Prospective et de la Veille Stratรฉgique and the national prospective studies (Cรดte d'Ivoire); Teknologiraadet, the Norwegian Board of Technology (Norway); Teknologiraadet, the Danish Board of Technology, abolished in 2012 (Denmark); Bureau federal du Plan (Belgium); Special Secretariat of Foresight (now of Long-term Planning) (Greece); STRATA foresight for the Lietuva 2050 state progress strategy (Lithuania); Institut Royal des Etudes Stratรฉgiques (IRES) (Morocco); Long-term Insights Briefings under the Public Service Act 2020 (New Zealand).

Missing indicators: Government foresight capacity, Long-horizon research commitments.

Agency

47.20.56

How able are individuals and organizations to turn an intention into action?

Uses 4 observed indicators. no trend.

Highest usable scores: New Zealand 92.3, Australia 89.2, Estonia 84.3.

Related deliveries in other countries: Singapore's national ICT-skills measurement and baseline (Singapore); e.escola, a national laptop-and-broadband push (Portugal); Pradhan Mantri Gramin Digital Saksharta Abhiyan (India); Puntos Mรฉxico Conectado, national digital learning centres (Mexico).

Missing indicators: Adults doing digital tasks.

What to measure first

The evidence is too thin to manage these dimensions confidently.

What to keep watching

These dimensions score at least 50 with usable evidence.

DimensionScoreConfidence
Adaptability87.60.62
Building64.80.57
Trust56.60.50

Missing data

18 requested indicators have no comparable dataset, and each one lowers confidence. A gap can become an indicator when a comparable series covers at least two countries.

DimensionMissing indicatorWhat it asks
AnticipationGovernment foresight capacityExistence, mandate and continuity of a national strategic foresight function.
AnticipationLong-horizon research commitmentsNew competitively awarded public research grants that run for five years or longer, as a share of all new competitive public research grants awarded in the year.
AgencyAdults doing digital tasksShare of adults who carried out a named digital task in the last three months, such as sending a message with an attached file, moving a file between devices or using a spreadsheet formula, counted one task at a time and never as a skill level.
CoordinationUniversity-industry collaborationIntensity of research collaboration between universities and firms.
CoordinationPublic-private collaborationFrequency and scale of joint public-private delivery of national objectives.
TrustTrust in public institutionsConfidence in national government, courts and civil service.
TrustCourt case clearance rateCivil and commercial cases resolved in a year as a share of cases filed in the same year.
LearningAdult learning participationShare of adults in formal or non-formal education and training in the last 12 months.
ExperimentationVenture dealsFirst venture capital rounds closed by companies based in the country in the year, per million people, counted by deal and never by amount.
ExperimentationFirms through regulatory sandboxesFirms admitted to, and firms completing, a regulatory sandbox or controlled trial regime in the year, per million people, summed across every regulator in the country.
ExperimentationUniversity spinoutsCompanies formed to commercialise university research, per million people.
AdaptabilityDisaster preparedness and recoveryDemonstrated capacity to prepare for and recover from major shocks.
AdaptabilityInstitutional responsivenessSpeed at which rules and public programmes are changed in response to new conditions.
BuildingLarge project deliveryCost and schedule performance of major public infrastructure projects.
BuildingFirm scale-up rateShare of young firms reaching significant employment or turnover thresholds.
Shared PurposeSense of national belongingReported identification with and attachment to the national community, as distinct from pride in the nation.
Shared PurposeVolunteeringShare of adults who volunteered time to an organisation in the last month.
Shared PurposePolitical polarisationDegree to which political differences run along a single hostile divide.

What Thailand built that no indicator counts

These are documented institutional changes in Thailand that the framework records as evidence. They appear beside the score and do not change it or its confidence.

  • PromptPay national instant-payment rail (Coordination)

    Thailand's central bank and commercial-bank network have run PromptPay as a shared instant-payment rail since 2016; by December 2024, 87.5 million proxy numbers were registered and average daily volume reached 66.4 million transactions, with a one-day peak of 89.2 million in September.

  • Universal Coverage Scheme and the 30-baht health system (Adaptability)

    Thailand's National Health Security Office has sustained the tax-funded Universal Coverage Scheme since 2002; in fiscal 2023 it covered more than 47.2 million people and contracted 17,247 public and private health units to provide care.

  • National Digital ID framework (Adaptability)

    Thailand's Digital ID Framework aligned government and private identity providers around common standards in its 2022โ€“2024 first phase; the Electronic Transactions Development Agency reports at least 113 million users across the major ThaiD, Tang Rat, Paotang and NDID platforms and services.

  • T-Alert national cell-broadcast warning system (Adaptability)

    Thailand launched T-Alert in September 2025 as a nationwide cell-broadcast warning system: it covers eight hazard categories, was built with the disaster agency, digital ministry, telecom regulator and AIS, True and NT, and followed three staged tests in 2025 before use in real floods and other incidents.

  • Hopewell elevated road-and-rail concession, and its termination (Building)

    Thailand approved Hopewell's 60-kilometre Bangkok Elevated Road and Train System concession in 1991, but work stalled at 14 percent completion for more than nine months during the 1997 property-market collapse and the government terminated the concession in spring 1998.

  • Public disaster warning network of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, and its erosion (Adaptability)

    Thailand's State Audit Office found in 2024 that the public warning system, for which the state allocated THB 1,074.95 million in fiscal years 2020 to 2022, and whose telemetry the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation publishes through its DPM Alert app, was not working as intended: 318 of 555 telemetry stations (57.30%) failed to measure continuously for more than two days, and 54 of 82 sampled warning towers and receivers (65.85%) were not ready to sound an alert, which the auditor attributed to damaged or deteriorated key parts.

  • Bank of Thailand regulatory sandbox (Experimentation)

    The Bank of Thailand, which opened a fintech regulatory sandbox in late 2016, listed 10 sandbox project tracks as of April 2026, whose participant counts sum to 90, from QR payment (14) and biometrics (19) to letters of guarantee (18), the National Digital ID (12) and programmable payment.

  • Department of Skill Development skill-upgrading training (Learning)

    Thailand's Department of Skill Development, through 86 national institutes and provincial offices, trained 91,911 workers in skill-upgrading courses in fiscal year 2023, of whom 88,656 completed, according to its open-data release.

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