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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Banglabazar Patrika
(Independent), Dhaka
(24 hour news coverage), Karwan Bazar Dhaka
http://www.bdnews24.com
Bhorer Kagoj
(Left-wing), Dhaka
(Independent, daily newspaper), Dhaka
http://www.prothom-alo.net/newhtmlnews1/index...
(Independent), Dhaka
http://www.dailystarnews.com/
Dainik Inqilab
(Pro-Islamist newspaper), Dhaka
(Pro-government, mass-circulation), Dhaka
http://www.ittefaq.com/
Bangladesh in the News
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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.
“Lately Bangladesh has gained notoriety for the spread of Islamic extremism, but jihadis don’t spring from the ground like mushrooms.”
In an article for Zurich's conservative Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Hermann Feldmeier reports on research showing that straining water through a sari reduces the rate of cholera infection.
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