The Election Commission is yet to begin delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, a vital job ahead of the next national election, due to the unavailability of the final report on the latest census.

For Bangladesh, the window of achieving demographic dividend will close around 2040.

For a census to be successful, three things need to be looked at: how the data was collected, how it was compiled, and whether it was published or not.

New census figures in Japan show the population has shrunk by nearly one million in the past five years, in the first decline registered since 1920.

The government yesterday began a household survey to register the undocumented Rohingya population and also to get an idea of the circumstances under which they fled their home country, Myanmar.

The government for the first time will begin a census of Rohingyas staying in Bangladesh illegally to give them special identity documents and prepare a database.