Health Care

Medical Tourism in Thailand

Pictured: A room at Bangkok Phuket Hospital. There were 1.5 million medical tourists in Thailand last year, and according to KGI Securities, up from only 500,000 at the start of the decade. KGI expects the medical-tourist population to grow another 10% in 2008 and hit 2 million by 2010. The breakdown by nation:

U.S.: 33%
China: 29%
Japan: 18%
England: 14%
Middle East: 6%
Australia: 6%
Others: 17%