The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) is the centralized official bureau in

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

for collecting statistics on demographics, the economy, and other facts about the country and disseminating the information.

History

Although independent statistical programs had existed in the country before, they were often incomplete or produced inaccurate results, which led the

Government of Bangladesh The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh ( bn, গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার — ) is the central executive government of Bangladesh. The government was constituted by the Con ...

establishing an official bureau in August 1974, by merging four of the previous larger statistical agencies, the Bureau of Statistics, the Bureau of Agriculture Statistics, the Agriculture Census Commission and the Population Census Commission. In July 1975, the Statistics and Informatics Division was created under the

Planning Ministry (Bangladesh) The Ministry of Planning ( bn, পরিকল্পনা মন্ত্রণালয়; ''Parikalpanā mantraṇālaẏa'') oversees the financial policies of the Bangladeshi Government, responsible for socioeconomic planning and statistic ...

and tasked to oversee the BBS. Between 2002 and 2012, the division remained abolished but was later reinstated. The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is headquartered in

Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...

. As of 2019, it has 8 Divisional statistical offices, 64 District statistical offices and 489 Upazila/Thana offices.

References

External links

* Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
"Census Reports: Population Census-2001"
2001. The 1991 census figures can be seen compared to the 2001 census. National statistical services Demographics of Bangladesh Government agencies of Bangladesh Research institutes in Bangladesh 1974 establishments in Bangladesh Organisations based in Dhaka {{Bangladesh-org-stub