Demographics of Bangladesh

Demographics of Bangladesh
Population	168,957,745 (2015 est.)^[1]
Growth rate	1.6% (2015 est.)^[1]
Birth rate	21.14 births/1,000 population (2015 est.)^[1]
Death rate	5.61 deaths/1,000 population (2015 est.)^[1]
Life expectancy	70.94 years (2015 est.)^[1]
• male	69.02 years
• female	72.94 years
Fertility rate	2.4 children born/woman (2015 est.)^[1]
Infant mortality rate	44.09 deaths/1,000 live births (2015 est.)^[1]
Age structure
0–14 years	31.62 (2015 est.)^[1]
15–64 years	63.25
65 and over	5.13
Sex ratio
Total	0.95 male(s)/female (2015 est.)^[1]
At birth	1.04 male(s)/female
Under 15	1.03 male(s)/female
15–64 years	0.91 male(s)/female
65 and over	0.97 male(s)/female
Nationality
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Major ethnic	Bengali
Minor ethnic	Santhals, Chakma, Garos (Achiks), Oraons, Mundas, Mro, Marma, Manipuri, Zomi, Bihari (Stranded Pakistani)
Language
Official	Bengali
Spoken	Bengali, Sylheti, English, Santali, Rajbanshi, Chakma, Tripuri, Khasi, Mundari

Bangladesh is largely ethnically homogeneous, and its name derives from the Bengali ethno-linguistic group which comprises 98% of the population. The Chittagong Hill Tracts, Sylhet, Mymensingh and North Bengal divisions are home to diverse indigenous peoples. There are many dialects of Bengali spoken throughout the region. The dialect spoken by those in Chittagong and Sylhet are particularly distinctive. The population is estimated at 169 million (2015^[1]). About 87% of Bangladeshis are Muslims, followed by Hindus (12%), Buddhists (1%) and Christians (0.5%).

Bangladesh has the highest population density in the world, excluding a handful of city-states and small countries with populations under 10m, such as Malta and Hong Kong.

Most of the demographic statistics below are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.

Population

Age-sex pyramid for Bangladesh, 2005

The 2011 total population was 152,518,015 which ranks Bangladesh 8th in the world.

The baseline for population studies on Bangladesh is the official census which is conducted every 10 years, the last being in 2011.

Census^[2]

Demographic evolution of the territory of Bangladesh (1900-2010).

**Population of Bangladesh**
Census date	census population (thousands)	adjusted population (thousands)
1901	28 928
1911	31 555
1921	33 255
1931	35 602
1941	41 997
1951	41 932
1961	50 840
1974	71 479	76 398
1981	87 120	89 912
1991	106 313	111 455
2001	124 355	130 523
15 Mar 2011	142 319	152 518

p=provisional figure

UN estimates^[3]

	Total population	Population aged 0–14 (%)	Population aged 15–64 (%)	Population aged 65+ (%)
1950	37 895	41.2	54.8	3.9
1955	43 444	42.4	54.1	3.5
1960	50 102	43.6	53.1	3.3
1965	57 792	44.7	52.0	3.3
1970	66 881	44.7	51.8	3.4
1975	70 582	45.8	50.7	3.5
1980	80 624	45.0	51.4	3.6
1985	92 284	43.9	52.5	3.6
1990	105 256	42.5	53.8	3.7
1995	117 487	40.3	55.9	3.8
2000	129 592	37.3	58.7	4.0
2005	140 588	34.3	61.4	4.3
2010	148 692	31.3	64.1	4.6

Structure of the population ^[4]^[5]

Structure of the population (15.03.2011) (Census) :

Age Group	Male	Female	Total	%
Total	72 109 796	71 933 901	144 043 697	100
0-4	7 638 523	7 423 447	15 061 970	10,46
5-9	9 322 514	8 850 715	18 173 229	12,62
10-14	8 614 889	8 031 726	16 646 615	11,56
15-19	6 509 492	6 352 398	12 861 890	8,93
20-24	5 777 370	7 522 419	13 299 789	9,23
25-29	6 225 252	7 254 256	13 479 508	9,36
30-34	5 079 106	5 420 659	10 499 765	7,29
35-39	4 697 349	4 859 079	9 556 428	6,63
40-44	4 280 923	3 980 739	8 261 662	5,74
45-49	3 363 273	3 016 800	6 380 073	4,43
50-54	2 952 596	2 599 675	5 552 271	3,85
55-59	1 923 534	1 577 463	3 500 997	2,43
60-64	2 081 306	1 852 708	3 934 014	2,73
65-69	1 149 569	963 921	2 113 490	1,47
70-74	1 206 398	1 025 314	2 231 712	1,55
75-79	488 338	386 389	874 727	0,61
80-84	443 239	436 840	880 079	0,61
85-89	138 268	124 343	262 611	0,18
90-94	116 916	133 273	250 189	0,17
95+	100 941	121 737	222 678	0,15

Age group	Male	Female	Total
0-14	25 575 926	24 305 888	49 881 814	34,63
15-64	42 890 201	44 436 196	87 326 397	60,62
65+	3 643 669	3 191 817	6 835 486	4,75

Structure of the population (DHS 2014) Male: 37 672, Female: 39 641, Total: 77 313 :

Age Group	Male	Female	Total
0-4	11.0	9.6	10.3
5-9	11.8	10.7	11.2
10-14	12.3	11.5	11.9
15-19	9.4	11.5	10.5
20-24	6.7	9.8	8.3
25-29	7.6	9.1	8.3
30-34	6.7	7.9	7.3
35-39	6.3	6.0	6.2
40-44	5.7	5.4	5.6
45-49	4.6	4.6	4.6
50-54	4.5	3.1	3.8
55-59	3.4	3.6	3.5
60-64	3.4	2.6	3.0
65-69	2.4	1.6	2.0
70-74	1.9	1.2	1.5
75-79	1.0	0.5	0.8
80+	1.3	1.2	1.3

Age group	Male	Female	Total
0-14	35.1	31.8	33.4
15-64	58.3	63.7	61.0
65+	6.6	4.5	5.6

Other sources

The following table lists various recent estimates of the population.

Source	Year	Population (millions)
US State Dept^[6]	2005	144
Population Reference Bureau^[7]	2005	144
World Bank^[8]	2008	160
CIA World FactBook^[9]	2010	156
World Population Reference^[10]	2010	164

According to the OECD/World Bank population in Bangladesh increased from 1990 to 2008 with 44 million and 38% growth in population compared to 34% growth in India and 54% growth in Pakistan. The annual population growth 2007-2008 was 1.4% compared to India 1.35%, Pakistan 2.2%, Dem. Rep. of Congo 2.9%, Tanzania 2.9%, Syria 3.5% or Yemen 4.0%. According to the OECD/World Bank population statistics between 1990-2008 the world population growth was 27% and 1,423 million persons.^[11]

Population growth rate

Birds eye of Dhaka in 2012

Bangladesh had high rates of population growth in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then however it has seen a marked reduction in its total fertility rate. Over a period of three decades it dropped from almost 7 to 2.4 in 2005-2010.^[3]

Gender ratio

Age range (years)	Sex ratio (males/females) (2015 est.)^[1]
at birth	1.04
0–14	1.03
15–24	0.89
25–54	0.90
55–64	1.01
65 and over	0.97
total population	0.95

Urban and rural

The sprawling mega-city of Dhaka has a huge population, but the majority of the people nonetheless still live in villages in rural areas.

Urban population: 27% of total population (2009 est.)

Rate of urbanization: 3.5% annual rate of change (2005-2010 est.)

Bangladesh is considered an urban country based on their population density (hrsa.gov)

Population Density

Based on the CIA World Fact Book 2012 figures for population (161,083,804) and land area (130,168 km²), Bangladesh has the highest population density among large countries, 1,237.51 persons per square kilometer, and 12th overall, when small countries and city-states are included.^[12]

Vital statistics

Births and deaths ^[3]

Period	Live births per year	Deaths per year	Natural change per year	CBR¹	CDR¹	NC¹	TFR¹	IMR¹
1950-1955	1 963 000	852 000	1 111 000	48.3	20.9	27.4	6.36	165.0
1955-1960	2 252 000	921 000	1 332 000	48.2	19.7	28.5	6.62	156.5
1960-1965	2 560 000	994 000	1 566 000	47.5	18.4	29.1	6.80	151.2
1965-1970	2 950 000	1 090 000	1 860 000	47.3	17.5	29.8	6.91	144.4
1970-1975	3 193 000	1 847 000	1 346 000	46.5	26.9	19.6	6.91	175.6
1975-1980	3 381 000	1 153 000	2 229 000	44.7	15.2	29.5	6.65	138.3
1980-1985	3 670 000	1 151 000	2 519 000	42.4	13.3	29.1	5.99	122.5
1985-1990	3 767 000	1 115 000	2 652 000	38.1	11.3	26.8	5.02	104.4
1990-1995	3 709 000	1 057 000	2 653 000	33.3	9.5	23.8	4.10	90.6
1995-2000	3 598 000	986 000	2 612 000	29.1	8.0	21.1	3.41	73.8
2000-2005	3 432 000	934 000	2 498 000	25.4	6.9	18.5	2.87	59.3
2005-2010	3 107 000	905 000	2 202 000	21.5	6.3	15.2	2.38	49.0
¹ CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); CDR = crude death rate (per 1000); NC = natural change (per 1000); TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman); IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000 births

Sample Vital Registration System^[13]^[14]

Year	Population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000): National (Urban/Rural)	Crude death rate (per 1000): National (Urban/Rural)	Natural change (per 1000): National (Urban/Rural)	Fertility rates: National (Urban/Rural)
2005	138 600	2 879 000			20.7 (17.8/21.7)	5.8 (4.9/6.1)	14.9 (12.9/15.6)	2.46 (1.87/2.65)
2006	140 600	2 901 000			20.6 (17.5/21.7)	5.6 (4.4/6.0)	15.0 (13.1/15.7)	2.41 (1.81/2.63)
2007	142 600	2 986 000			20.9 (17.4/22.1)	6.2 (5.1/6.6)	14.7 (12.3/15.5)	2.39 (1.79/2.61)
2008	144 700	3 022 000			20.5 (17.2/22.4)	6.0 (5.1/6.5)	14.5 (12.1/15.9)	2.30 (1.79/2.60)
2009	146 700	2 832 000			19.4 (16.8/20.4)	5.8 (4.7/6.1)	13.6 (12.1/14.3)	2.15 (1.65/2.28)
2010	148 600	2 868 494	842 095	2 026 399	19.2 (17.1/20.1)	5.6 (4.9/5.9)	13.6 (12.2/14.2)	2.12 (1.72/2.26)
2011	150 600	2 891 000	828 000	2 063 000	19.2 (17.4/20.2)	5.5 (4.8/5.8)	13.7 (12.6/14.4)	2.11 (1.71/2.25)
2012	152 700	2 933 000	826 000	2 107 000	18.9 (17.1/20.0)	5.3 (4.6/5.7)	13.6 (12.5/14.3)	2.12 (1.84/2.30)
2013	154 700				19.0 (18.2/19.3)	5.3 (4.6/5.6)	13.7 (13.6/13.7)	2.11 (1.84/2.19)
2014	156 800				18.9 (17.2/19.4)	5.2 (4.1/5.6)	13.7 (13.1/13.8)	2.11 (1.77/2.22)

Fertility

Total Fertility Rate (TFR):^[15]

Year	TFR (Total)	TFR (Rural)	TFR (Urban)
2014	2,108	2,218	1,768

Total fertility rate by divisions

Division	TFR(Total fertility rate)	Crude birth rate	death rate
Barisal	2,34	18.2	5.4
Chittagong	2,09	18.9	4.8
Dhaka	2,17	19.9	5.4
Khulna	1,96	17.7	5.3
Rajshahi	2,04	17.9	5.3
Rangpur	2,22	19.3	5.1
Sylhet	2,09	18.0	5.5

Birth and Death rate

Year	Birth rate (per 1000)	Death rate (per 1000)
2014	18.9	5.2

Fertility Rate (The Demographic Health Survey) ^[16]

Fertility Rate (TFR) (Wanted Fertility Rate) and CBR (Crude Birth Rate):

Year	CBR (Total)	TFR (Total)	CBR (Urban)	TFR (Urban)	CBR (Rural)	TFR (Rural)
1993-1994	29.1	3.44 (2.1)	25.3	2.69 (1.7)	29.5	3.54 (2.2)
1996-1997	29.4	3.27 (2.1)	22.6	2.10 (1.5)	30.2	3.43 (2.2)
1999-2000	30.2	3.31 (2.2)	25.3	2.45 (1.7)	31.3	3.54 (2.4)
2001	28.4	3.22	26.0	2.69	28.9	3.36
2004	28.7	3.0 (2.0)	25.8	2.5 (1.6)	29.5	3.2 (2.1)
2007	26.1	2.7 (1.9)	24.7	2.4 (1.7)	26.5	2.8 (1.9)
2011	22.6	2.3 (1.6)	20.6	2.0 (1.5)	23.3	2.5 (1.6)
2014	22.2	2.3 (1.6)	20.8	2.0 (1.5)	22,8	2.4 (1.7)

Health

Life expectancy at birth

Total population: 70.65 years (2014 est.)^[17]

country comparison to the world: 150

Male: 68.48 years

Female: 72.31 years

HIV/AIDS

Prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (adults, 102nd in world, 2001 est.); 0.01% (2014 est.)

People living with HIV/AIDS: 12,000 (85th in world, 2007 est.)

Deaths: fewer than 500 (87th in world, 2007 est.); about 700 (2014 est.).

Major infectious diseases

Degree of risk: high

Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever

Vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria are high risks in some locations

Water contact disease: leptospirosis

Animal contact disease: rabies (2005)

Ethnic groups

Ethnic groups in Bangladesh^[18]

Bengali			98.0%
Ethnic minorities			1.1%
Uncertain			0.9%

The vast majority (about 98.5%) of Bangladeshis are of the Bengali ethno-linguistic group. This group also spans the neighboring Indian province of West Bengal. Minority ethnic groups include Meitei, Khasi, Santhals, Chakma, Garo (tribe), Biharis, Oraons, Mundas and Rohingyas.

Biharis are Urdu-speaking, non-Bengalis who emigrated from the state of Bihar and other parts of northern India during the 1947 partition. They are concentrated in the Dhaka and Rangpur areas and number some 300,000.^[19]^[20] In the 1971 independence war many of them sided with Pakistan, as they stood to lose their positions in the upper levels of society.^[21] Hundreds of thousands went to Pakistan and those that remained were interned in refugee camps. Their population declined from about 1 million in 1971 to 600,000 in the late 1980s.^[21] Refugees International has called them a "neglected and stateless" people as they are denied citizenship by the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan.^[22] As nearly 40 years has passed, two generations of Biharis have been born in these camps. Biharis were granted Bangladeshi citizenship and voting rights in 2008.^[23]

Bangladesh's tribal population was enumerated at 897,828 in the 1981 census.^[21] These tribes are concentrated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and around Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. They are of Sino-Tibetan descent and differ markedly in their social customs, religion, language and level of development. They speak Tibeto-Burman languages and most are Buddhist or Hindu.^[21] The four largest tribes are Chakmas, Marmas, Tipperas and Mros. Smaller groups include the Santals in Rajshahi and Dinajpur, and Khasis, Garos, and Khajons in Mymensingh and Sylhet regions.^[21]

There are small communities of Meitei people in the Sylhet district, which is close to the Meitei homeland across the border in Manipur, India.

There is a small population of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar near the border in the southeast. There are 28,000 living in two UN refugee camps in Cox's Bazaar as well as some 200,000 "unregistered people of concern" living outside of the camps.^[24] The refugee crisis originated in the early 1990s when the first wave numbering some 250,000 of the predominantly Muslim ethnic group fled persecution from their home in Rakhaine—Myanmar's western-most state. Bangladesh seeks to repatriate the refugees back to Myanmar.^[25]

Language

Languages of Bangladesh (2011) ^[18]

Bangla			98.8%
Other			1.2%

Main article: Languages of Bangladesh

Official language: Bengali (also known as Bangla)
Other languages often considered dialects of Bengali: Chittagonian, Sylheti, Rohingya, Tangchangya, Chakma, and Rangpuri.^[26]
Other Indic languages: Bishnupriya Manipuri, Assamese, various Bihari languages
Tibeto-Burman languages: A'Tong, Chak, Koch, Garo, Megam, Meitei Manipuri, Mizo, Mru, Pangkhua, Rakhine/Marma, Kok Borok, Riang, Tippera, Usoi, various Chin languages^[26]
Austroasiatic languages: Khasi, Koda, Mundari, Pnar, Santali, War^[26]
Dravidian languages: Kurukh^[26]
Other languages: English (spoken and known widely in upper-class & politics), Arabic ( sometimes spoken and known by many Muslims, due to Islam being the primary religion), Hindi/Urdu (understood by some, and spoken by Biharis)'

Religion

Population trends for major religious groups in Bangladesh (1951–2011)

Religions of Bangladesh (2013)^[18]

Islam			89.1%
Hindu			10.0%
Other (includes Buddhist, Christian)			0.9%

Religious group	Population % 1951.^[27]	Population % 1961^[27]	Population % 1974^[27]	Population % 1981^[27]	Population % 1991^[27]	Population % 2001^[28]	Population % 2011^[29]
Islam	78.9 %	80.4 %	85.4 %	86.6 %	88.3 %	89.7%	90.0 %
Hinduism	22 %	18.5%	13.5%	12.1 %	10.5 %	9.2%	9.0%
Buddhism	0.7 %	0.7 %	0.6 %	0.6 %	0.6 %	0.7 %	0.6%
Christianity	0.3 %	0.3 %	0.2 %	0.3 %	0.3 %	0.3%	0.3%
Other religions / No religion	0.1 %	0.1 %	0.2 %	0.3 %	0.3 %	0.1%	0.1%

Genetics

Bangladesh has the world's highest frequency of the M form of mitochondrial DNA. This genetic variant spans many continents, and is the single most common mtDNA haplogroup in Asia.^[30] In Bangladesh it represents about 83% of maternal lineages.^[31]

Education

Literacy

Definition: age 15 and over can read and write

Total population: 43.1%

Male: 53.9%

Female: 31.8% (2003 est.)

Education expenditures

2.7% of GDP (2005)

country comparison to the world: 151

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External links

This article incorporates public domain material from the CIA World Factbook document "2011 edition". This is also viewable at "Bangladesh 2011". Retrieved 16 September 2014.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Department of State website http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/index.htm (Background Notes).

Ethnic groups in Bangladesh

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Ancient	Vedic period Anga Vanga Pundra Suhma Kingdom Magadha Legendary kings of Magadha Pradyota Shishunaga Nanda Gangaridai Maurya Empire Shunga Empire Kanva dynasty Gupta Empire

Middle Ages	Kamboja Pala Sena Islamic rulers in South Asia Delhi Sultanate Khilji dynasty Bengal Sultanate Sur Empire Baro-Bhuyan

Mughal period	Mughal Bengal Principality of Bengal Nawabs Porto Grande De Bengala Battle of Plassey

Colonial period	Black Hole of Calcutta Famine of 1770 Sepoy Rebellion Bengali renaissance Partition of Bengal (1905) East Bengal Indian independence movement Muslim League Pakistan Movement Prime Minister of Bengal Lahore Resolution Famine of 1943 Direct Action Day Partition of Bengal (1947)

Pakistan era	East Pakistan Language Movement Legislative election in 1954 Six point movement 1969 Uprising General election in 1970 Proclamation of Independence Bangladesh Liberation War Provisional Government Genocide Rape Timeline

Bangladesh	Famine of 1974 Military coups 1975 1981 1982 Political crisis in 2006–08 Bangladesh Rifles revolt

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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