Thailand
Retiring to Thailand from the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand. Thailand has a retirement residence route: Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay), renewed yearly. It requires USD $1,927 a month in income (Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay)).
THB ฿65,000.00 a month · European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates, 2026-10-30Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand: Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay), as of 1 May 2022, 2026-10-16 · Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand: Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay), as of 1 May 2022, 2022-05-01
The country figures on this page were checked at their official sources on Oct 16, 2026; each one shows its own source and date.
Research in progress. The official data sources for Thailand have not yet been through our quality assessment, so this page is incomplete. What is published here is sourced and dated; what is missing is missing rather than estimated.
Residency and healthcare · measured for Thailand
Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay)
- Income
- USD $1,927 / month THB ฿65,000.00 / month · European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates, 2026-10-30 1 × O-A income (THB ฿65,000 per month, in force May 1, 2022) · Or a deposit plus monthly income totalling THB ฿800,000 a year. Each Thai embassy sets its own document list, and some ask more.
- Or savings held
- USD $23,718 THB ฿800,000.00 · European Central Bank, euro foreign exchange reference rates, 2026-10-30 1 × O-A deposit (THB ฿800,000, in force May 1, 2022) · A bank deposit. Each Thai embassy sets its own document list, and some ask more.
- Food 84.2
- Housing, water, electricity and gas 25.9
- Health 39.9
- Transport 68.4
- Restaurants and hotels 41.6
- Communication 106.6
- Clothing and footwear 66.5
- Overall average 53.7
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Source: ExpatAlmanac, "Prices against the world average in Thailand", https://expatalmanac.com/thailand, figures as of 2021; original data: World Bank, International Comparison Program 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Source: ExpatAlmanac, "Residency and healthcare in Thailand", https://expatalmanac.com/thailand, figures as of 2026; original data: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand: Non-Immigrant Visa O-A (Long Stay), as of 1 May 2022.
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