Population Problem in Bangladesh

Or, Population Explosion in Bangladesh

Population is an asset to a country when she can turn it into a useful manpower and provide them with all basic necessities. But it becomes a problem for a country when she fails to provide them with employment opportunity and the basic needs of life.

Bangladesh is an over-populated country. She is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. The density of population in our country is about 1350 per square kilometer. The present growth rate of population in Bangladesh is 1.8. Now, over-population is a great problem for our country.

Population explosion is destroying all the efforts for our development. Our population is increasing day by day but the land is not increasing. Our land is fixed. Other facilities for living also are not increasing in proportion to the increase of population. So, the problems of shelter, food, clothing, medical treatment, housing, education, entertainment, etc. are increasing gradually. It also causes various disturbances in the society. Because of it, everything is becoming bad to worst. So, various socioeconomic and political problems are created for population explosion in Bangladesh.

We must come forward to control our population. We should adopt family planning measures effectively. Each-family must live in a planned way so that they can turn their children into asset. No family should have more than two children. Early marriage and polygamy must be banned.

Most of the people of our country are farmers. They are not educated. They want to have more sons than daughters. They think that their sons will help them. This wrong idea should be removed to control population. Besides, people living in rural areas are religiously fundamental. To control population, this mentality must be removed as early as possible. Therefore, education of the mass is a must. In this regard, private and public initiative should be taken. Only combined efforts can resolve this problem.

The government alone cannot solve this problem. Educated people of the society must play an important role in this respect. If we can check your population explosion, we can develop our country day by day.