1. ForecastsBangladesh

   Bangladesh: the UN's 2002 projection did not expect births this low even by 2050

   2023: 3.32M. The UN's 2002 projection expected about 3.96M for 2023 and 3.39M for 2050.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Bangladesh now has more people than Russia
• Bangladesh: mothers are younger on average than in 1950
• Bangladesh: 292 thousand more people died than usual in 2020–2021; officially 28 thousand died of COVID
• Bangladesh: in 2020–2023 net migration was lower than all 12 UN projections assumed
• Bangladesh’s Awami League in 2008 promised that life expectancy would reach 70 years by 2021. It came to 71.1
• Income per head and export promises in 8 countries: from 43% to 148% of the number. 2 of 9 came true

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