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At current growth, Bangladesh is projected to enter upper-middle income status by 2041. Based on the current rate of poverty reduction, Bangladesh is projected to eradicate extreme poverty by 2031, as outlined in its Eighth Five-Year Plan (2020–2025) and supported by reports from organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development ...
As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...
In July 1975, the Statistics and Informatics Division was created under the Planning Ministry, and tasked to oversee the BBS. Between 2002 and 2012, the division remained abolished but was later reinstated. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is headquartered in Dhaka. As of 2019, it has 8 divisional statistical offices, 64 district statistical ...
It progresses immensely in the Human Development Index, particularly in the areas of literacy and life expectancy, but economic inequality has increased and about 32% of the population, that is 50 million people, still live in extreme poverty. [1] In Bangladesh 40% of the country falls under three categories: hunger, starvation and chronic ...
Bangladesh has achieved remarkable feats in reducing its poverty rate, which has gone down from 80% in 1971, [34] to 44.2% in 1991, [35] all the way down to 18.7% in 2022. [36] It has emerged as the second-largest economy in South Asia, [37] [38] surpassing the per capita income levels of both India and Pakistan.
Number of people living in extreme poverty from 1820 to 2015. Population not in extreme poverty Population living in extreme poverty Total population living in extreme poverty, by world region 1990 to 2015. Latin America and Caribbean East Asia and Pacific Islands South Asia Middle East and North Africa Europe and Central Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Other high income countries The number of people ...
Demographic Indicators for Bangladesh in 2020 [1] Population, total 164,689,383 Population density (per km 2) 1,265.2 Population growth (annual %) 1.1% Male to Female Ratio (every 100 Female) 102.5 Urban population (% of total) 36.6% Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people) Not available Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people) Not available
Bangladesh has one of the highest population densities in the world. The total fertility rate (TFR) has been reduced by more than two thirds since Independence. The current TFR in Bangladesh is 1.930 per woman, [16] globally considered to be below the benchmark for replacement level fertility.