Bangladesh 
Facts
Population:
131,269,860 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
35.04% (male 23,550,607; female 22,451,006)
15-64 years:
61.6% (male 41,432,123; female 39,434,633)
65 years and over:
3.36% (male 2,389,639; female 2,011,852) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.59% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
25.3 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
8.6 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.76 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.05 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
1.19 male(s)/female
total population:
1.05 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
69.85 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
60.54 years
male:
60.74 years
female:
60.33 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.78 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.02% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
13,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
1,000 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Bangladeshi(s)
adjective:
Bangladeshi
Ethnic groups:
Bengali 98%, tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims (1998)
Religions:
Muslim 83%, Hindu 16%, other 1% (1998)
Languages:
Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
56%
male:
63%
female:
49% (2000 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $203 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
5.3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $1,570 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
30%
industry:
18%
services:
52% (2000 est.)
Population below poverty line:
35.6% (FY95/96 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
3.9%
highest 10%:
28.6% (1995-96 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.8% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
64.1 million (1998)
note:
extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $1.71 billion in 1998-99
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 63%, services 26%, industry 11% (FY95/96)
Unemployment rate:
35.2% (1996)
Budget:
revenues:
$4.9 billion
expenditures:
$6.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY99/00 est.)
Industries:
cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar
Industrial production growth rate:
6.1% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
12.06 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
93.7%
hydro:
6.3%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
11.216 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry
Exports:
$5.9 billion (2000)
Exports - commodities:
garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood
Exports - partners:
US 31.2%, Germany 9.95%, UK 8.06%, France 5.82%, Italy 4.42% (1999)
Imports:
$8.1 billion (2000)
Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, raw cotton, food, crude oil and petroleum products, cement
Imports - partners:
India 12.2%, Singapore 7.8%, Japan 6.7%, China 6.4%, US 5.3% (1999)
Debt - external:
$17 billion (2000)
Economic aid - recipient:
$1.575 billion (2000 est.)
Currency:
taka (BDT)
Currency code:
BDT
Exchange rates:
taka per US dollar - 54.000 (January 2001), 52.142 (2000), 49.085 (1999), 46.906 (1998), 43.892 (1997), 41.794 (1996)
Fiscal year:
1 July - 30 June
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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Ajker Kagoj
(Left-wing), Dhaka
Banglabazar Patrika
(Independent), Dhaka
(24 hour news coverage), Karwan Bazar Dhaka
http://www.bdnews24.com
(Independent), Dhaka
http://www.bangladesh.net/observer/
Bhorer Kagoj
(Left-wing), Dhaka
(Independent, daily newspaper), Dhaka
http://www.prothom-alo.net/newhtmlnews1/index...
(Independent), Dhaka
http://www.dailystarnews.com/
Bangladesh in the News
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With a very small job market and barely any scope for self-employment, rural people are swelling the ranks of the city's economic migrants. And they are not just victims of Cyclone Sidr.
After deliberations at the highest policy-making levels, the Indian government has commissioned the construction of a barbed wire fencing along entire common boundary with Bangladesh.
In a new fact-loaded book, veteran Indian editor-cum-journalist Hiranmay Karlekar analyzes a rising threat to security in South Asia: Bangladesh's drift toward fundamentalist Islam.
Although concern among the South Asian population about the spread and impact of H.I.V./AIDS is significant, governments continue to give the problem a low priority.
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