The mass-yield distributions of various fission products in the 45- and 80-MeV bremsstrahlung-induced fission of ²³²Th have been determined by using a recoil catcher and an offline γ -ray spectrometric technique in the electron linac at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Korea. The mass-yield distributions were obtained from the fission-product yield data using charge-distribution corrections. The peak-to-valley (P/V) ratio, the average value of light mass (<A_L>) and heavy mass  (<A_H>), and the average number of neutrons (<ν>) in the bremsstrahlung-induced fission of ²³²Th at different excitation energies were obtained from the mass-yield data. From the present measurements and the existing data from the ²³²Th(γ ,f ) reaction and those from the ²³²Th(n,f ) reaction at various energies, the following observations were obtained: (i) The mass-yield distributions in the 232Th(γ ,f ) reaction at various energies are triple humped, similar to those of the 232Th(n,f ) reaction. (ii) The yields of fission products for A = 133–134, A = 138–139, and A = 143–144 and their complementary products in the ²³²Th(γ ,f ) reaction are higher than those of other fission products due to the nuclear structure effect. (iii) The yields of symmetric fission products for A = 133–134 and their complementary products in the ²³²Th(γ ,f ) reaction are lower than those in the ²³²Th(n,f ) reaction, whereas those for A = 143–144 and their complementary products are reversed. (iv) The result of increasing of the symmetric product yield causes the decreasing of the peak-to-valley ratio with increasing the excitation energy. However, it is surprising to see that the increasing trends for the symmetric products yields and the decreasing trends for the P/V ratio in the ²³²Th(γ ,f ) and ²³²Th(n,f ) reactions are not similar but those in the ²³⁸U(γ ,f ) and ²³⁸U(n,f ) reactions are similar to each other. (v) The average values of (<AL>, <AH>, and <ν> at different excitation energies in the ²³²Th(γ ,f ) and ²³²Th(n,f ) reactions are similar but those in the ²³⁸U(γ ,f ) and ²³⁸U(n,f ) reactions are different.