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Bangladesh: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
174 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+0.9%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+1.0%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
2031185.6Forecast
2030184.1Forecast
2029182.1Forecast
2028180.1Forecast
2027178.2Forecast
2026176.2Forecast
2025174.2
2024172.6
2023171.0
2022169.8
2021168.3
2020166.5
2019164.5
2018162.7
2017160.8
2016159.1

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1950–2014
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • Penn World Table1959–2019
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • Bordo1972–1997
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1980–2025
  • Asian Development Bank (archive)2000–2023
  • Asian Development Bank2000–2025
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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