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Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 10.3 million, accounted for 33.1% of the total urban population by 2009. United Nations World Population Prospects [33] show that the population growth rate was in decreasing trend (from 2.0% per annum to 1.1%), primarily due to reduction in fertility rate (births per woman) from 3.2 to 2.4. Life ...
The urban population was 30.5% of the total at the beginning, which ended up at 36.6%. Dhaka, the largest city, with a population of 14.7 million, accounted for 31.8% of the total urban population by 2019. Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population) changed from 58.2% to 49.0% by the end of the decade.
Dhaka is a megacity, and has a population of 10.2 million residents as of 2024, and a population of over 23.9 million residents in Dhaka Metropolitan Area. [ 22 ] [ 14 ] [ 23 ] It is widely considered to be the most densely populated built-up urban area in the world.
The population growth rate estimates (according to the United Nations Population Prospects 2019) between 2015 and 2020 [6] The 20 countries in the world in which the population has declined between 2010 and 2015
In July 2017, 36 new wards were added to the two city corporations. [127] Dhaka Metro Rail started operations in December 2022. [128] As of December 2022, Dhaka has an estimated population of more than 22.4 million, making it the largest city in Bangladesh and the 4th largest city in the world. [129]
Greater Dhaka (Bengali: বৃহত্তর ঢাকা) is the Megalopolis including and surrounding the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka, which has grown into one of the world's largest megacities, and shows a very rapid rate of expansion. Dhaka not only grows because it is the capital and largest urban centre but also due to massive ...
Their population declined from about 1 million in 1971 to 600,000 in the late 1980s. [32] Refugees International has called them a "neglected and stateless" people as they are denied citizenship by the governments of Bangladesh and Pakistan. [33] As nearly 40 years has passed, two generations of Biharis have been born in these camps.
It is the eighth-most populous country in the world and among the most densely populated with a population exceeding 170 million within an area of 148,460 square kilometres (57,320 sq mi). Bangladesh shares land borders with India to the north, west, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast. To the south, it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal.