Population

How countries prepare for population growth and decline

Around the world, diverse initiatives are being introduced to manage population changes.
15 September 2023, 07:30 AM

World population about to hit 8 billion later this week

According to United Nations (UN) projections, the world population is going to hit 8 billion on November 15.
9 November 2022, 18:24 PM

Bangladesh needs independent census evaluation

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.
12 August 2022, 13:58 PM

Nine times that books told us why overpopulation is scary

Despite the decelerating growth rate and with the country's population currently standing at 16.51 crore as opposed to just 14 crore in 2011—merely 10 years ago—overcrowding is still a massive cause of headache for most of us.
30 July 2022, 09:59 AM

Rich become richer, poor get poorer

The poor's share in the national income eroded further in the past six years, with the richer segment of the population having bigger stakes.
17 October 2017, 18:00 PM

Congested Dhaka city needs more space

Development of the eastern part of Dhaka would help reduce population density and traffic congestion in the entire city, allowing it to
21 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Rethinking the population problem

With the knowledge that Bangladesh's population - which was about 75 million in 1971 - now stands bloated to more than 160 million, all crammed into ...
10 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Getting the best out of a youthful nation

Sakib Khan's family has six members. The parents and two sons, aged between 20 and 55 years, earn a livelihood, while the two daughters aged below 15 attend school.
20 May 2016, 18:00 PM

The Migration Superpowers

We have entered the age of migration. If all the people who live outside the country of their birth united to form their own – a republic of the rootless – it would be the fifth-largest country in the world, with a population of more than 240 million people.
22 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Rohingya census begins in 6 dists

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.
12 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh’s urban population rising fast

Bangladesh is set to see 50 percent urban population in the next four decades as people are increasingly migrating to the urban areas for livelihoods, education or as fallouts of climate change.
20 December 2015, 13:24 PM

China's one-child policy reversal cautiously welcomed

Chinese state media have welcomed the news China is reforming its decades-old one-child policy, with one editorial saying it "echoes the people's will".
30 October 2015, 08:15 AM

Extreme poverty 'to fall below 10%': World Bank

For the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015, says World Bank.
5 October 2015, 04:27 AM

Why Delhi buys water on the black market

20 percent of Delhi population have no access to piped water and have to be supplied by water tankers, but difference between demand and supply is over 750 million litres a day.
29 July 2015, 15:41 PM

India to be highest populous county by 2050

India records a population of 127,42,39,769, which is growing at a rate of 1.6 per cent a year, and could make the country the most populous in the world by 2050
11 July 2015, 15:35 PM

Population, Prosperity and Public Policy

Man in Bangladesh, the nation as a whole,” as a wise man once put it, “is the principal resource of Bangladesh.”
10 July 2015, 18:00 PM