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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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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** *Source: Population and Housing Census.
Bangladesh has led the way in reducing child mortality, with neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates on a constant downward trend over the last 30 years. Yet infant mortality remains high at 34 deaths per 1,000 live births, with two thirds of these deaths occurring within 28 days of birth.
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).
Roughly 9 out of 10 children aged 1–14 years had been violently disciplined by a caregiver. Child labour affected 6.8 per cent of those aged 5–17 years. Child marriage remained widespread: 51.4 per cent of women aged 20–24 years were first married before the age of 18 years (MICS, 2019).
• At 6 years old, the official starting age for primary school in Bangladesh, nine out of ten children are in school: 63 percent in primary education and 27 percent in pre-primary or ECE. • The children in Grade 1 exhibit significant age variation: 39 percent are the officially sanctioned
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.
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).
