Bangladesh

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Facts

Population: 150,448,339 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 33.1% (male 25,639,640/female 24,174,937) 15-64 years: 63.4% (male 48,659,087/female 46,712,687) 65 years and over: 3.5% (male 2,818,638/female 2,443,350) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 2.056% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 29.36 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 8.13 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: -0.66 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.061 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.042 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 1.154 male(s)/female total population: 1.052 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 59.12 deaths/1,000 live births male: 60.13 deaths/1,000 live births female: 58.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 62.84 years male: 62.81 years female: 62.86 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 3.09 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 13,000 (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: 650 (2001 est.).

Nationality: noun: Bangladeshi(s) adjective: Bangladeshi.

Ethnic groups: Bengali 98%, other 2% (includes 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: 43.1% male: 53.9% female: 31.8% (2003 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $336.7 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 6.6% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,300 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 19.9% industry: 20.6% services: 59.5% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 68 million note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Qatar, and Malaysia; workers' remittances estimated at $4.8 billion in 2005-06. (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 63% industry: 11% services: 26% (FY95/96).

Population below poverty line: 45% (2004 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3.9% highest 10%: 28.6% (1995-96 est.).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.2% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 2.5% (includes underemployment) (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $6.389 billion expenditures: $8.694 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry.

Industries: cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, chemical fertilizer, light engineering, sugar.

Industrial production growth rate: 7.2% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 18.09 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - consumption: 16.82 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).

Exports: $11.17 billion (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood (2001).

Exports - partners: US 23.6%, Germany 13.5%, UK 9.4%, France 6.4% (2005).

Imports: $13.77 billion (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: machinery and equipment, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement.

Imports - partners: India 14.1%, China 13.5%, Kuwait 8.5%, Singapore 6.2%, Japan 4.1%, Hong Kong 4.1% (2005).

Debt - external: $22.55 billion (2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $1.575 billion (2000 est.).

Currency (code): taka (BDT).

Exchange rates: taka per US dollar - 69.031 (2006), 64.328 (2005), 59.513 (2004), 58.15 (2003), 57.888 (2002).

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June.