🇧🇩Bangladesh

Dhaka

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Lower middle income

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Population

175.7M

1.2%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.14

births/woman

Life Expectancy

74.9y

GDP / capita

$2.6K

Pop. Growth

1.22%

Net Migration

-402.1K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Bangladesh by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇲🇲Myanmar1.2M(50.7%)

+430%

🇲🇾Malaysia274.3K(11.1%)

+34%

🇨🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male86.4MTotal 175.7M89.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

2.3

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇮🇩Indonesia205.9K(8.4%)

+43%

🇱🇦Lao PDR118.8K(4.8%)

+43%

🇺🇸United States62K(2.5%)

+43%

🇳🇵Nepal52.6K(2.1%)

+58%

🇮🇳India46.4K(1.9%)

+44%

🇬🇧United Kingdom45.1K(1.8%)

+43%

🇧🇭Bahrain40.6K(1.7%)

+43%

🇻🇳Viet Nam37.1K(1.5%)

+44%

🇰🇭Cambodia26.5K(1.1%)

+43%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Bangladesh diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Bangladesh who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia2.4M(27.1%)

+138%

🇮🇳India2.3M(26.3%)

−18%

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates1M(11.8%)

+50%

🇴🇲Oman737.1K(8.5%)

+184%

🇰🇼Kuwait406.1K(4.7%)

+58%

🇺🇸United States357.6K(4.1%)

+116%

🇬🇧United Kingdom298.7K(3.4%)

+43%

🇲🇾Malaysia282.4K(3.2%)

−12%

🇶🇦Qatar274.7K(3.2%)

+68%

🇮🇹Italy179.3K(2.1%)

+186%

🇧🇭Bahrain103.3K(1.2%)

+31%

🇨🇦Canada79K(0.9%)

+77%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024