Census next year, to end row over population size
Friday, 23 April 2010
FE Report
The country's next census will start in 2011 to find out the number of people living in Bangladesh and concrete data about their growth, age, sex, ethnicity, religion and social and economic status.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will carry out the door-to-door census with an army of short-term compilers at a budget of US$ 39.77 million dollars, being funded by the government and donors.
Bangladesh population was tallied at 124 million in 2001, the last time the country conducted a census, with males outnumbering females by 51 to 49 per cent, Muslims comprising some 90 per cent of the population and 23 out of 100 people living in urban areas.
The new census would provide critical inputs about the country's food, housing, healthcare, education, employment and other basic need, officials said Thursday.
It also would help find out the number of people and communities left out of the country's recent economic boom, they added.
The country's next census will start in 2011 to find out the number of people living in Bangladesh and concrete data about their growth, age, sex, ethnicity, religion and social and economic status.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) will carry out the door-to-door census with an army of short-term compilers at a budget of US$ 39.77 million dollars, being funded by the government and donors.
Bangladesh population was tallied at 124 million in 2001, the last time the country conducted a census, with males outnumbering females by 51 to 49 per cent, Muslims comprising some 90 per cent of the population and 23 out of 100 people living in urban areas.
The new census would provide critical inputs about the country's food, housing, healthcare, education, employment and other basic need, officials said Thursday.
It also would help find out the number of people and communities left out of the country's recent economic boom, they added.