Table 1 Population size, CBR, CDR, natural growth rate and annual growth rate in Bangladesh, 1901–
2011. Source: Statistical Year Book 2012, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) (2013a)
Census
year
Population size
(millions)
Crude birth rate
(CBR)
Crude death rate
(CDR)
Natural growth
rate
1901
28.93
–
44.4
–
1911
31.56
53.8
45.6
8.2
1921
33.25
52.9
47.3
5.6
1931
35.60
50.4
41.7
8.7
1941
41.99
52.7
37.8
14.9
1951
44.16
49.4
40.7
8.7
1961
55.22
51.3
29.7
21.6
1974
76.40
47.4
19.4
28.0
1981
89.91
34.6
11.5
23.1
1991
111.46
31.6
11.2
20.4
2001
130.52
27.8
8.6
19.2
2011
149.77
22.6
6.6
16.0
3.5
225
200
3
175
2.5
150
2
125
1.5
100
1
75
0.5
50
25
0
0
2050
2040
2030
2020
2010
2000
1990
1980
1970
1960
1950
1940
1930
1920
1910
-0.5
Growth rate(%)
250
1900
Population (in millions)
The population growth rate reached an all-time high in the 1950s and 1960s (Table
1; Fig. 1). During the 1970s, the growth rate temporarily fell due to many natural
calamities such as a cyclone in 1970 and famine in 1974, as well as the liberation war
in 1971 that killed three million people (Razzaque et al. 1990; Roy and Dasgupta
1976). The population growth rate continued to be over 2 % until the 1990s and then
started declining in the 2000s and reached close to 1 % in the 2010s (Fig. 1). The
main driving force behind the declining population growth rates of the
Year
Fig. 1 Total population (in millions) and population growth rate (%), 1900–2050. Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, 2011; UN (2014)