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Bangladesh Flashcards

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Population size

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2000= 131,280,738
2017= 164,827,718
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Life expectancy

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2000= 65.34 years 
2015= 72 years
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Fertility rate

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1970= 6.47
2017= 2.17
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Population density

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2017 1266 p/km2

44,000 in major cities such as Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna

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Growth rate

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1.04%

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Median age

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26

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Birth and death rate

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Birth rate= 18.8 births per 1000 people

Death rate= 5.4 deaths per 1000 people

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Population growth

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  • has had a sustained population growth with high TFR and LE due to decreasing IMF and MR over the past 50 years
  • TFR peaked at 6.47 in 1970
  • whole of country need to try and keep growth of pop under 150 million
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Regional context

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  • India has a very similar population structure as does Myanmar to Bangladesh
  • all of these country have see ph high population growth followed by a recent decrease. All were nearly 6 in 1960
    India= TFR:2.43, POP GROWTH: 1.17, LE: 68
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Factors causing the population growth

Social

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  • education of women is increasing as seen by the increase Female literacy rate and this resulted in low TFR
    FML 69.9%
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Historical

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-mostly Bangali muslin population population which has needed children to with on

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Factors causing population growth

Economic

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Increased GNI has resulted in greater life expectancy and been produced by low wages for investment

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Factors causing the pop growth

Environmental

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Flood plain location gives access to food supply but also the precautions of farming

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Political

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National government family planning policy

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Technological

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Medical improvement increased and and nutritional/agriculture production provided better health care=>LE

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The importance of these factors

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  • significant factor in changing pop is political
  • The national family planning policy
  • has resulted in women staying at school longer and increase education level in the country improving overall
  • => GNI
17
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Issues and challengers caused by this population growth

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  • overcrowding in the cities due to large, rural-urban migration
  • family planning is a national challenge but is most affected by women marrying later
  • decrease the time women spend with their child daily
18
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Distribution of issues and challengers

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Population, density in capitals Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna

  • 44000 per km squared.
  • vulnerable to diseases, competition food jobs and housing
  • caused from migration of rural to urban areas in search of job opportunities.
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Link to Malthus theory

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  • Malthus admired delaying marriage age as a method of population control which has worked for Bangladesh
20
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Responses to issues and challenges

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National/Regional p= National family planning

Local= digitalisation of maternal child health care

21
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National family planning program (NFPP)
Aim 
Who 
When 
Where
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Aim- to keep population under the smaller side of 150 million
Who-National government
When- started in 1973-1978 then has contained in different phases one with the contraception an offer in 1990s. Phases two post 1998 has been a client focussed program
Where- the whole country

22
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Initiative of the NFPP

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  • payment of fees to keep girls at secondary levels
  • to teach at school about the benefits on having a small family
    • increase employment opportunities for women, particularly the textile industry
  • Ti reduce the incidence of child hood Marriage
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Digitalisation of maternal child care
who
Where

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Register family planning, community registration
Who- directive general of family planning fieldworkers in Basisaif, tongali, Habigary
Send their workplaces and data via their tablets
Where? Local scale

24
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Effectiveness of NFPP positives

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Criteria 1 positives

- National family planning, plan has been affordable as it begins to pay for itself because of TFR drop and GNI increase

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Effectiveness NFPP negative

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The centralised but local delivery of the program which became client based

26
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Overall effectiveness of NFPP

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In 1999s has enabled it to be flexible in it its response to grass roots change

27
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Digitalisation of maternal child health care

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High cost of buying the tablets may not move in value but as costs reduce to centralisation it may become more affordable

  • flexibility is a key feature of this as it allows for movement of people
  • rural to urban
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Which strategy is most effective

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NFPP has been most affective as it is both affordable and flexible

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