This is the result of no free or compulsory education system meaning few people have qualifications. Access to healthcare is also poor in Bangladesh resulting in a high death rate and infant mortality rate. In the future, Bangladesh will struggle to cope with its growing population. The main challenges the country will face include:. If you've found the resources on this page useful please consider making a secure donation via PayPal to support the development of the site.
The site is self-funded and your support is really appreciated. If you've found the resources on this site useful please consider making a secure donation via PayPal to support the development of the site. A country which is over-populated - Bangladesh. A country which is over-populated — Bangladesh Bangladesh is situated in both the eastern and northern hemispheres and is located on the Indian subcontinent in south-central Asia.
A map of Bangladesh. However, the poorest group is growing faster, and the child survival is lower. Food production has kept pace with population growth for the past few decades, but may not continue due to reaching the limits of domestic agricultural production.
The number of children eligible for primary schooling has now stabilized and will not increase further. This should facilitate planning and hopefully implementation. There is evidence that the fertility decline has reduced numbers of childhood deaths, if not rates. It has reduced selected high-risk pregnancies. Some risks, such as drowning, may have increased due to reduced toddler supervision. The fertility decline has reduced selected high-risk pregnancies and the absolute numbers of maternal deaths considerably.
There is potential for further reductions, if early childbearing can be reduced by delaying marriage. Factors accelerating rural-urban migration contribute to changing family structures where young women and young men are exposed to risks of urban life.
These exposures were not found in traditional Bangladeshi life. The poverty-driven search for employment can result in circumstances where high-risk behaviours become acceptable. Rising population densities can force people to migrate to malaria-endemic rural areas, thus adding to the populations at risk of resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
High-density living and crowding is a risk factor for air-borne diseases, such as TB. Other infectious diseases, e. Global warming will likely increase the risk for certain vectorborne diseases, e.
As described, rapid urbanization will create possibly insurmountable pressures on safe water supplies, and the insecure tenure of slum-life, tends to be associated with lack of basic services, as governments are reluctant to provide them even if resources are available. As above, governments historically tend to avoid providing services to slum-dwellers in fear that it will simply pull more rural migrants into the cities.
In a slowly-modernizing economy, the rapid growth in numbers of youths seeking employment can exceed the capacity of the private and public sectors to generate jobs.
The steady shift towards non-communicable diseases resulting from ageing of the population—a direct result of the fertility decline—will carry major implications for the types and costs of drugs and health services for managing common health problems.
Fertility: Evidence suggests that the recent cessation of outreach family-planning services has selectively disadvantaged the poor, among whom fertility has risen. If this is true, the importance of services for different population subgroups need to be better understood.
The same pattern may also apply to women in Sylhet, who may be economically better-off, but have limited mobility. Their fertility has been consistently higher than in other parts of the country. Learning how to develop health systems to identify high-fertility families and target these families for additional services will be a challenge to the health system.
Targeting family-planning programmes to high-parity families and those at high risk of unintended pregnancies. Preparing for urbanization—improving urban infrastructure and a skilled workforce. Prevent and control diseases of urban slums: tuberculosis, enteric infections, pneumonia, and violence. Family planning: Bangladesh still has a pattern in the use of short-term family-planning methods which are rather inefficient where most women marry while young and complete their childbearing in their mid-twenties, leaving another 20 years of fertile life to ensure protection from unwanted pregnancies.
It is possible that justifiable concerns about poor quality of care and fear of surgical procedures underlie much of the hesitation to adopt long-term or permanent contraceptive methods. Much has been said about this, but little improvement has eventuated.
What can be done about this? Many rural people migrate to urban areas with the hope of finding employment. In many cases, this hope remains unfulfilled. What is the nature of employment in the urban informal sector, and how can employment opportunities be increased in urban areas? Is there a role for urban microcredit? Can it be linked to other direct health interventions? Water and sanitation: What can be done to improve water and sanitation and to minimize water-borne diseases in slum conditions?
How much is social mobilization effective in creating groups who can organize, for example, funds to sink functional deep tubewells? Or use community savings to construct safe, hygienic latrines? There are numerous examples, from neighbouring countries, of group formation to alleviate the pollution of surface water supplies for urban dwellers. This tends to involve blocking raw sewerage outlets into city-lakes, preventing industrial wastes from entering city-lakes and ponds, and exposing and preventing further unauthorized land-grabbing of wetlands in urban zones.
In addition to expanding the supply of available water for domestic use, it can reduce monsoon flooding in the vulnerable low-lying slums. They are not uniquely urban, but urban conditions tend to be associated with this and other illegal behaviours. What underlies this tendency? What can be done to minimize it and to redirect young people into more meaningful and productive activities?
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This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Bangladesh currently has a population approaching million and will add another million before stabilizing, unless fertility can soon drop below replacement level. Population projections A more important question is what the future popu- lation growth will be. Open in a separate window.
Key messages The density of the Bangladesh population is much higher than any other mega country. Age of marriage has not increased in Bangladesh as it has in other Asian countries. Replacement fertility It is worth noting that the exact year in which replacement fertility is achieved is not of great importance. Age structure and population momentum A demographic change that has major implications is the rapid fertility decline of the s.
Determinants of future population growth Can changes in any other determinants of population growth play an important role in what future population growth will be in Bangladesh?
Fertility Following a dramatic and precipitous decline in the s from almost seven children per woman late s to just over three children per woman early s , fertility has been stagnant for a decade. Family planning A puzzling feature of the fertility plateau was the fact that contraceptive prevalence rates CPRs continued to rise steadily throughout the s, from Age at marriage In a country undergoing a major fertility transition, it is usual to see a gradual delay in age at marriage for young women.
Implications of population growth and ageing for health systems There will be two ways in which population growth impacts patterns of disease and the need for health services. Urban health conditions and challenges The health of the urban poor or slum dwellers is primarily due to crowding and lack of access to basic services, such as water and sanitation.
Population density and crowding Rural Bangladesh has a relatively high population density of per sq km This is sparse compared to the urban population densities from the latest slum-mapping 5 , which are 30 times higher, averaging 23, nationwide 7, in Barisal City Corporation to 29, in Dhaka metropolitan.
How are these challenges consistent with the MDGs? MDG 1—Target 2: Halve the proportion of hungry people Food production has kept pace with population growth for the past few decades, but may not continue due to reaching the limits of domestic agricultural production. MDG 2—Target 3: Ensure that boys and girls can complete primary schooling The number of children eligible for primary schooling has now stabilized and will not increase further.
MDG 4—Target 5: Reduce under-five mortality rates There is evidence that the fertility decline has reduced numbers of childhood deaths, if not rates. MDG 5—Target 6: Reduce the maternal mortality ratio The fertility decline has reduced selected high-risk pregnancies and the absolute numbers of maternal deaths considerably.
MDG 6—Target 8: Reverse the incidence of malaria and TB Rising population densities can force people to migrate to malaria-endemic rural areas, thus adding to the populations at risk of resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria. MDG 7—Target Access to safe water and basic sanitation As described, rapid urbanization will create possibly insurmountable pressures on safe water supplies, and the insecure tenure of slum-life, tends to be associated with lack of basic services, as governments are reluctant to provide them even if resources are available.
After a day of heavy rainfall left the streets flooded — as usual — seven workers were assigned to clear a blocked manhole in Rampura, in the centre of the city. Normally, cleaners cling to ropes to stop them getting sucked in by surging water when they clear blockages. But this group were new to the job. Bystanders smashed the road open with hammers and shovels.
Eventually, they dragged out three workers, dead. Another four were seriously injured; one later died in hospital. The overburdened drains clog and the low-lying city fills with water like a bathtub.
On the sides of the roads, in the blinding rain, the ragtag army of sewer cleaners goes to work. Some poke bamboo sticks into the manholes. Others are plunged, half-naked, into the liquid filth and forced to scoop out the sludge with their bare hands.
With more than 44, people sharing each square kilometre of space, and more migrating in from rural areas every day, the capital is literally bursting at the seams — and the sewers.
Overpopulation is usually defined as the state of having more people in one place that can live there comfortably, or more than the resources available can cater for. By that measure, Dhaka is a textbook example. Cities can be densely populated without being overpopulated. Singapore, a small island, has a high population density — about 10, per sq km — but few people would call it overpopulated. Outside, painted rickshaws tinkle through narrow, waterlogged streets. Bangladesh Population Projections The rate of growth has been slowing steadily for quite a while, and that trend is expected to continue further into the 21st century.
Population Rank. The current population of Bangladesh is ,, based on projections of the latest United Nations data. The UN estimates the July 1, population at ,, Bangladesh Population Live. Show Source. Bangladesh Population Estimator Estimate as of October 23, is: ,, Components of Population Change One birth every 11 seconds One death every 34 seconds One net migrant every 1 minutes Net gain of one person every 20 seconds.
Bangladesh Population Clock. Largest Cities in Bangladesh The capital and largest city of Bangladesh is Dhaka , which has a population of Bangladesh Population Density Map.
Bangladesh Population by Year Historical. Bangladesh Population by Year Projections.
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