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- Population: 169.8 million* Children (aged 0-17 years): 56.9 million (33 per cent) ** Infants (aged 0-11 months): 3.4 million** Children under five years of age (aged 0-59 months): 16.3 million** School-aged children (aged 6-17 years): 37.6 million**
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Sources used here are the ones referred to by UNICEF for its work in Bangladesh. Population: 169.8 million*. Children (aged 0-17 years): 56.9 million (33 per cent) **. Infants (aged 0-11 months): 3.4 million**. Children under five years of age (aged 0-59 months): 16.3 million**.
Bangladesh has made great progress in ensuring preschool education for five-year-old children, with coverage up from 50 per cent in 2010 to 87 per cent in 2019. MICS data show, however, that only 18.9 per cent of children aged 36–59 months attended early childhood education in 2019, a slight increase on 2012–2013 (13.4 per cent).
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The proportion of under-five children in Bangladesh whose births are reported has risen sharply to 56 per cent in recent years. 6.8 per cent of children aged 5-17 years are involved in child labour. This number is higher among children not attending school (18.9 per cent) compared to those attending school (4.4 per cent).
The sample for the Bangladesh MICS 2019 was designed to provide estimates for a large number of indicators on the situation of children and women at the national level, for urban and rural areas, for eight divisions and sixty-four districts.
The Analysis of the Situation of Children in Bangladesh 2019, hereafter called as SitAn 2019, is a living document to shed lights on the existing status of child well-being while also identifying the current gaps and inequalities which require both immediate and long-term attention.
citizens of Bangladesh has risen from a mere 95 USD in 1972 to about 1909 USD by 2019, the life expectancy at birth has also touched the milestone of 72.8 years in 2019 which was only 46 years in 1972.
Dec 1, 2019 · The Bangladesh Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) was carried out in 2019 by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in collaboration with UNICEF Bangladesh, as part of the Global MICS Programme. Technical support was provided by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
