Languages: Bangla (official), English
Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1990)
total population: 35%
male: 47%
female: 22%
Labor force: 50.1 million
by occupation: agriculture 65%, services 21%, industry and mining 14%
(1989)
note: extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Oman (1991)
@Bangladesh:Government
Names:
conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh
conventional short form: Bangladesh
former: East Pakistan
Digraph: BG
Type: republic
Capital: Dhaka
Administrative divisions: 4 divisions; Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna,
Rajshahi
Independence: 16 December 1971 (from Pakistan)