ACOG - Bangladesh  - IBM

Geography

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India

Area:
total area: 144,000 sq km
land area: 133,910 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin

Land boundaries: total 4,246 km, Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km

Coastline: 580 km


People

Population: 128,094,948 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 40% (female 25,195,262; male 26,352,299)
15-64 years: 57% (female 34,862,105; male 37,867,705)
65 years and over: 3% (female 1,761,336; male 2,056,241)

Population growth rate: 2.32% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 34.62 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 11.43 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 104.6 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 55.46 years
male: 55.69 years
female: 55.22 years

Total fertility rate: 4.39 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Bengali 98%, Biharis 250,000, tribals less than 1 million

Religions: Muslim 83%, Hindu 16%, Buddhist, Christian, other

Languages: Bangla (official), English

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 35%
male: 47%
female: 22%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh
conventional short form: Bangladesh

Type: republic

Capital: Dhaka

Independence: 16 December 1971 (from Pakistan)

Constitution: 4 November 1972, effective 16 December 1972, suspended following coupof 24 March 1982, restored 10 November 1986, amended many times


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $130.1 billion

National product real growth rate: 4.5%

National product per capita: $1,040

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.3%

Unemployment rate:

Electricity:
capacity: 2,740,000 kW
production: 9.2 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 70 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.