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Population | 161,083,804 (July 2012 est.) | Age structure | 0-14 years: 33.6% (male 27,489,425/female 26,705,051)
15-24 years: 18.8% (male 14,079,450/female 16,124,609)
25-54 years: 37.2% (male 28,328,628/female 31,625,777)
55-64 years: 5.6% (male 4,627,372/female 4,413,711)
65 years and over: 4.8% (male 3,763,528/female 3,926,253) (2012 est.) | Median age | total: 23.6 years male: 23.1 years female: 24.1 years (2012 est.) | Population growth rate | 1.579% (2012 est.) | Birth rate | 22.53 births/1,000 population (2012 est.) | Death rate | 5.71 deaths/1,000 population (July 2012 est.) | Net migration rate | -1.04 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2012 est.) | Urbanization | urban population: 28% of total population (2010) rate of urbanization: 3.1% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) | Major cities - population | DHAKA (capital) 14.251 million; Chittagong 4.816 million; Khulna 1.636 million; Rajshahi 853,000 (2009) | Sex ratio | at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.9 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.96 male(s)/female total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2011 est.) | Infant mortality rate | total: 48.99 deaths/1,000 live births male: 51.48 deaths/1,000 live births female: 46.39 deaths/1,000 live births (2012 est.) | Life expectancy at birth | total population: 70.06 years male: 68.21 years female: 71.98 years (2012 est.) | Total fertility rate | 2.55 children born/woman (2012 est.) | HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | less than 0.1% (2009 est.) | HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | 6,300 (2009 est.) | HIV/AIDS - deaths | fewer than 200 (2009 est.) | Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 56% of population rural: 52% of population total: 53% of population unimproved: urban: 44% of population rural: 48% of population total: 47% of population | Major infectious diseases | degree of risk: high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria are high risks in some locations water contact disease: leptospirosis animal contact disease: rabies note: highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009) | Nationality | noun: Bangladeshi(s) adjective: Bangladeshi | Ethnic groups | Bengali 98%, other 2% (includes tribal groups, non-Bengali Muslims) (1998) | Religions | Muslim 89.5%, Hindu 9.6%, other 0.9% (2004) | Languages | Bangla (official, also known as Bengali), English | Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 56.8% male: 61.3% female: 52.2% (2010 est.) | School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) | total: 8 years male: 8 years female: 8 years (2007) | Education expenditures | 2.4% of GDP (2008) | Maternal mortality rate | 240 deaths/100,000 live births (2010) | Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 41.3% (2007) | Health expenditures | 3.4% of GDP (2009) | Physicians density | 0.295 physicians/1,000 population (2007) | Hospital bed density | 0.4 beds/1,000 population (2005) | | ShareThis Demographics Comparison * Bangladesh vs. Burma * Bangladesh vs. India | |