Appendix A. Tables

Table 1. Metric Conversion Coofficients and Factors


When you kow	Multiply by	To find
Millimeters	0.04	inches
Centimeters	0.39	inches
Meters	3.3	feet
Kilometers	0.62	miles
Hectares	2.47	acres
Square kilometers	0.39	square miles
Cubic meters	35.3	cubic feet
Liters	0.26	gallons
Kilograms	2.2	pounds
Metric tons	0.98	long tons
	1.1	short tons
	2,204	pounds
Degrees Celsius (Centigrade)	1.8 and add 32	degrees Fahrenheit

Table 2. Climatic Statistics, Selected Stations, 1986

Station	Precipitation (in centimeters)	Temperature (in degrees Celsius)		Humidity (average daily, in percent)
		Min.	Max.	Min.	Max.
Barisal	211	10.0	38.4	71	92
Bogra	215	9.5	39.5	51	87
Chittagong	278	12.4	35.4	63	84
Comilla	205	10.0	36.6	65	86
Cox's Bazar	286	13.5	34.5	62	89
Dhaka	248	10.6	39.5	52	84
Dinajpur	198	8.8	40.5	45	87
Faridpur	232	10.5	40.5	52	86
Jessore	210	9.4	40.2	52	88
Khulna	242	8.0	38.7	66	88
Maijdi Court	298	10.6	36.5	67	88
Mymensingh	305	11.1	36.2	57	86
Rajshahi	152	7.8	41.5	47	86
Rangamati	244	12.5	37.4	57	86
Rangpur	231	9.0	39.1	53	89
Sylhet	329	10.6	36.7	54	88

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 23-27.

Table 3. Population Density, Selected Years, 1881-2000

Year	Population (in thousands)¹	Density (per square kilometer)²
1881	25,086	187
1891	27,103	202
1901	28,928	216
1911	31,555	235
1921	33,255	248
1931	35,602	266
1941	41,997	313
1951	44,832	312
1961	50,840	379
1974	71,478	533
1981	87,129	650
1988	109,964	821
1990³	112,865	842
1995³	127,086	948
2000³	142,141	1,060

¹ Some years include enumerated census population data.
² Calculation based on land area of 133,910 square kilometers.
³ Projected.

Sources: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 38, 71; and United States, Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook, 1988, Washington, May 1988, 20.

Table 4. Area, Population, and Density by Region, 1981 and 1985

Region	Area (in square kilometers)	Population (in thousands)		Density (per square kilometer)
		1981	1985	1981	1985
Bandarban	4,499	180	200	40	44
Barisal	7,295	4,819	5,385	660	738
Bogra	3,886	2,814	3,245	724	835
Chittagong	7,453	5,664	6,329	759	849
Chittagong Hill Tracts^*	8,675	602	674	69	77
Comilla	6,596	7,103	7,937	1,076	1,203
Dhaka	7,466	10,340	11,554	1,384	1,547
Dinajpur	6,563	3,300	3,687	502	561
Faridpur	6,878	4,918	5,496	715	799
Jamalpur	3,347	2,527	2,823	755	843
Jessore	6,570	4,145	4,632	630	705
Khulna	12,163	4,469	4,993	367	410
Kushtia	3,405	2,365	2,642	694	775
Mymensingh	9,664	6,779	7,575	701	783
Noakhali	5,457	3,938	4,401	721	806
Pabna	4,730	3,534	3,948	747	834
Patuakhali	4,093	1,897	2,120	463	517
Rajshahi	9,452	5,440	6,078	575	643
Rangpur	9,592	6,716	7,505	700	782
Sylhet	12,714	5,835	6,520	461	512
Tangail	3,401	2,527	2,823	743	830
BANGLADESH	143,899	89,912	100,567	624	698

^*As of January 1988, known as Rangamati Region.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Pocketbook of Bangladesh, 1986, Dhaka, 1987, 117-38.

Table 5. Population by Age-Group, Sex, and Urban-Rural Distribution, 1981 Census

**(in thousands)**
	Urban			Rural			National
Age-Group	Male	Female	Both Sexes	Male	Female	Both Sexes	Male	Female	Both Sexes
0-4	955	939	1,894	6,494	6,405	12,899	7,449	7,344	14,793
5-9	935	899	1,834	6,248	6,076	12,324	7,183	6,975	14,158
10-14	947	848	1,795	5,279	4,576	9,855	6,226	5,424	11,650
15-19	744	621	1,365	3,385	3,397	6,782	4,129	4,018	8,147
20-24	741	563	1,304	2,503	2,972	5,475	3,244	3,535	6,779
25-29	709	472	1,181	2,532	2,707	5,239	3,241	3,179	6,420
30-34	528	344	872	1,964	2,127	4,091	2,492	2,471	4,963
35-39	450	267	717	1,908	1,814	3,722	2,358	2,081	4,439
40-44	360	227	587	1,560	1,547	3,107	1,920	1,774	3,694
45-49	259	156	415	1,326	1,121	2,447	1,585	1,277	2,862
50-54	233	174	407	1,184	1,099	2,283	1,417	1,273	2,690
55-59	130	79	209	794	618	1,412	924	697	1,621
60-64	153	112	265	893	791	1,684	1,046	903	1,949
65-69	67	51	118	465	330	795	535	380	915
70-74	74	56	130	465	356	821	535	414	949
75-79	28	15	43	215	135	350	248	151	399
80-84	32	19	51	188	156	344	215	184	399
85-89	9	5	14	56	42	98	68	39	107
90-94	9	6	15	45	37	82	55	43	98
95 and over	7	5	12	45	37	82	49	39	88
TOTAL	7,370	5,858	13,228	37,549	36,343	73,892	44,919	42,201	87,120

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 36.

Table 6. Foreign Employment of Bangladeshi Nationals by Country, Selected Years, 1979-87

Country	1979	1981	1983	19 85	1987
Algeria	25	0	0	0	0
Bahrain	827	1,392	2,473	2,965	2,055
Ethiopia	20	0	0	0	0
Iran	4	0	0	144	0
Iraq	2,362	13,153	4,932	5,051	3,847
Jordan	73	66	42	0	0
Kuwait	2,289	5,461	10,283	7,384	9,559
Libya	1,967	4,162	2,209	1,514	2,271
Malaysia	0	0	2	792	440
Nigeria	51	17	41	0	0
Oman	3,777	7,351	10,351	9,218	0
Qatar	1,383	2,268	7,541	4,751	5,831
Saudi Arabia	6,490	13,384	11,462	37,111	39,350
Singapore	110	1,083	211	0	0
Uganda	50	0	0	0	0
United Arab Emirates	5,055	6,418	6,615	8,336	9,953
Lebanon, Syria, and other	0	1,029	2,279	428	711
TOTAL	24,483	55,784	58,441	77,694	74,017

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 114.

Table 7. Unemployed Persons by Age-Group, Sex, and Urban-Rural Distribution, Fiscal Year 1984

**(in percentages)**
	Urban			Rural			National
Age-Group	Male	Female	Both Sexes	Male	Female	Both Sexes	Male	Female	Both Sexes
10-19	21.1	22.2	21.5	31.2	32.2	31.4	29.0	30.1	29.2
15-19	20.0	22.2	21.5	36.1	38.9	36.7	32.9	36.7	33.7
20-24	27.8	33.3	28.0	17.4	21.1	18.7	19.7	23.5	20.5
25-29	20.0	11.1	18.7	11.2	7.8	10.2	12.9	8.5	12.0
30-34	1.1	5.6	1.9	1.2	---	1.0	1.2	0.9	1.2
35 and over	10.0	5.6	8.4	2.8	---	2.2	4.2	0.9	3.4
TOTAL*	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

--- means negligible.
^*Figures may not add to total because of rounding.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1986, Dhaka, 1987, 216.

Table 8. Major Religious Communities, Selected Years, 1901-81

**(in percentages)**
Year	Muslim	Hindu	Other^*	Total
1901	66.1	33.0	0.9	100.0
1911	67.2	31.5	1.3	100.0
1921	68.1	30.6	1.3	100.0
1931	69.5	29.4	1.1	100.0
1941	70.3	28.0	1.7	100.0
1951	76.9	22.0	1.1	100.0
1961	80.4	18.5	1.1	100.0
1971	85.4	13.5	1.1	100.0
1981	86.6	12.2	1.2	100.0

^*Buddhist, Christian, and "others."

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 46.

Table 9. Health Care Indicators, Fiscal Years 1980, 1985, and 1990

Indicator	Unit	1980	1985	1990^*
Infant mortality	per 1,000 live births	140.0	125.0	100.0
Maternal mortality	-do-	7.0	6.0	4.0
Crude birth rate	per 1,000 population	43.3	39.0	31.0
Crude death rate	-do-	16.8	15.8	13.0
Life expectancy at birth	years	56.9	55.1	54.0
Hospital beds	number	21,141.0	21,637.0	40,734.0
Population per hospital bed	-do-	4,128.0	3,589.0	2,712.0
Coverage of population by primary health care services	percentage of population	25.0	30.0	65.0
Physicians	number	11,000.0	16,000.0	22,500.0
Population per physician	-do-	8,810.0	6,640.0	4,755.0

^*Target.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 59, 372, 376, 378.

Table 10. Major Aid Donors, Fiscal Years 1981 and 1986

**(in millions of United States dollars)**
	1981		1986
Donor	Commitments	Disbursements	C ommitments	Disbursements
Asian Development Bank	164	46	177	159
Britain	6	51	87	42
Canada	40	70	101	98
International Development Association	334	178	489	348
Japan	232	162	63	139
United Nations system	65	38	148	66
United States	191	134	232	104
Other	630	469	365	347
TOTAL	1,662	1,148	1,662	1,303

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 408-9.

Table 11. Production of Selected Agricultural Commodities, Selected Fiscal Years, 1981-87

**(in millions of tons unless otherwise indicated)**
Commodity	1981	1983	1985	1986¹	1987²
Cotton (1,000 bales)	10.00	58.00	29.00	29.00	50.00
Food grains
Rice
Aus	3.28	3.06	2.78	2.83	3.10
Aman	7.96	7.60	7.93	8.54	8.20
Boro	2.63	3.54	3.90	3.67	4.10
Total rice	13.87	14.20	14.61	15.04	15.40
Wheat	1.09	1.09	1.46	1.04	1.30
Others	0.05	0.05	0.03	0.03	0.04
Total food grains	15.01	15.34	16.10	16.11	16.74
Jute (1,000 bales)	4,943.00	4,881.00	5,111.00	8,610.00	6,750.00
Oilseeds	0.25	0.26	0.27	0.27	0.27
Potatoes	1.00	1.17	1.18	1.10	1.15
Pulses	0.22	0.20	0.19	0.18	0.24
Sugarcane	6.60	7.48	7.00	6.64	7.00
Sweet potatoes	0.70	0.73	0.69	0.61	0.56
Tea (1,000 tons)	40.00	41.00	38.00	37.00	40.00
Tobacco (1,000 tons)	48.00	51.00	50.00	46.00	50.00

¹ Estimated.
² Projected.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1986, Dhaka, 1987, various pages.

Table 12. Production of Selected Industrial Commodities, Selected Fiscal Years, 1981-87

**(in millions of tons unless otherwise indicated)**
Commodity	1981	1983	1985	1987¹
Textiles²
Cotton cloth (1,000 meters)	78,612	59,741	62,590	59,410
Cotton yarn (1,000 kilograms)	46,235	45,237	48,139	45,141
Sacking	309,535	241,647	222,595	248,020
Carpet backing	71,276	93,966	80,922	80,308
Synthetic yarn (1,000 kilograms)	1,499	1,381	1,546	1,059
Paper products
Newsprint	30,902	26,741	45,972	46,643
Particle board	1,228	543	2,308	2,502
Chemicals and fertilizers
Urea	341,734	371,008	741,463	846,458
Ammonium sulfate	9,233	12,282	9,634	9,316
Caustic soda	5,984	5,685	6,811	8,331
D.D.T.	1,016	412	1,252	911
Paints and varnish (gallons)	424,370	405,784	583,088	635,502
Cycle tires and tubes (dozens)	16,145	12,621	28,236	29,683
Cement	344,830	306,688	240,176	309,677
Steel ingots	139,343	47,401	101,149	82,081
Ceiling fans (units)	83,760	93,694	128,045	122,998
Television sets
Black and white (units)	26,314	33,452	56,316	60,730
Color (units)	0	174	706	14,341
Transportation equipment (units)
Trucks	1,297	0	257	456
Buses	508	56	54	400
Automobiles	0	0	0	50
Jeeps	451	0	226	180
Motorcycles	6,122	3,167	17,334	10,469
Bicycles	28,214	13,338	14,712	16,917

¹ Projected.
² Includes ready-made garment production.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 246-49.

Table 13. Exports, Selected Fiscal Years, 1981-87

**(in millions of United States dollars)**
Commodity	1981	1983	1985	1986	1987^*
Jute
Raw jute	119	110	151	124	92
Jute manufactures	357	320	390	293	306
Total jute	476	430	541	417	398
Frozen seafood	40	72	87	113	165
Garments	3	11	116	131	150
Leather goods	56	58	70	61	90
Petroleum products	49	31	21	17	15
Tea	41	46	61	33	38
Other	46	38	39	47	44
TOTAL	711	686	935	819	900

^*Projected.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh Bank, Statistics Department, Annual Export Receipts, 1985-86, Dhaka, 1986, 173-77.

Table 14. Imports, Selected Fiscal Years, 1981-87

**(in millions of United States dollars)**
Commodity	1981	1983	1985	1986	1987¹
Food
Rice	40	97	176	8	21
Wheat	210	288	322	212	267
Edible oil and oilseeds	103	88	109	147	109
Total food	353	473	607	367	397
Intermediate goods
Crude petroleum	343	240	226	178	137
Petroleum products	160	171	133	176	128
Fertilizer	104	68	137	103	22
Cement	33	44	26	40	55
Raw cotton	108	56	106	52	85
Other²	749	539	796	757	851
Total intermediate goods	1,497	1,118	1,424	1,306	1,278
Capital goods	683	655	616	691	725
TOTAL	2,533	2,246	2,647	2,364	2,400

¹ Projected.
² Includes minor imports of food.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh Bank, Statistics Department, Annual Import Payments, 1985-86, Dhaka, 1986, 135-41.

Table 15. Major Trading Partners, Fiscal Year 1986

(in millions of takas)^*
Country	Exports	Imports	Total	Percentage of Total Trade
Belgium	1,015	347	1,362	1.5
Britain	1,569	2,360	3,929	4.3
Canada	453	2,260	2,713	3.0
China	747	2,370	3,117	3.5
India	76	3,038	3,114	3.4
Iran	959	1,078	2,037	2.2
Italy	1,488	336	1,824	2.0
Japan	1,946	8,233	10,179	11.3
Malaysia	99	1,277	1,376	1.5
Netherlands	477	1,106	1,583	1.8
Pakistan	1,464	2,045	3,509	3.9
Saudi Arabia	190	1,716	1,906	2.1
Singapore	1,272	9,071	10,343	11.5
South Korea	235	3,700	3,935	4.4
United Arab Emirates	195	3,222	3,417	3.8
United States	6,862	5,088	11,950	13.2
West Germany	716	2,623	3,339	3.7
Other	7,633	13,059	20,692	22.9
TOTAL	27,396	62,929	90,325	100.0

^*For value of the taka--see Glossary.

Source: Based on information from Bangladesh, Ministry of Planning, Bureau of Statistics, Statistics Division, Statistical Yearbook of Bangladesh, 1987, Dhaka, July 1988, 329-32.

Table 16. Government Ministries, 1982 and 1988

December 1982	July 1988
Agriculture	Agriculture
Chief Martial Law Administrator's Secretariat^*	Civil Aviation and Tourism
	Communications
Commerce and Industries	Cultural Affairs
Defence and Civil Aviation	Defence
Education, Religious Affairs, Sports, and Cultural Affairs	Education and Culture
	Energy and Mineral Resources
Finance and Planning	Establishment and Reorganization
Flood Control, Energy, and	Mineral Resources
Finance	Fisheries and Livestock
Food and Relief	Food
Foreign Affairs	Foreign Affairs
Health and Population Control	Health and Family Planning
Home Affairs	Home Affairs
Information and Broadcasting	Industries
Labour and Manpower	Information
Law, Land Administration, and Land Reforms,	Jute
	Labour and Manpower
Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives	Land
	Law and Justice
President's Secretariat^*	Local Government, Rural Development, and Cooperatives
Public Works and Urban Development	Planning
Social Welfare and Women's Affairs	Religious Affairs
	Shipping
Transport and Communication	Social Welfare and Women's Affairs
	Textiles
	Works and Urban Development
	Youth Development and Sports

^*Ministerial-level organization.

Source: Based on information from United States, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, Washington, December 1982, 6; and United States, Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments, Washington, July-August 1988, 5-6.

Table 17. Parliamentary Election Results, 1973-88


	Number of Seats Won
Party	1973	1979	1986	1988
Awami League	282	41¹	76	---
Bangladesh Nationalist Party	---	207	---	---
Jamaat e Islami	---	---	10	---
Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal	1	8	7²	21³
Jatiyo Party	---	-- -	153	251
Muslim League	---	- --	4	---
Muslim League--Islamic Democratic League	---	20	---	---
Other parties	1	8	18	2
Independents	5	16	32	25
TOTAL	289	300	300	299

--- means did not participate.
¹Abdul Malik Ukil faction thirty-nine seats; Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury faction two seats.
²A.S.M. Abdur Rab faction four seats; Shajahan Siraj faction three seats.
³Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal three seats; Jatiyo Samajtantrik Dal (A.S.M. Abdur Rab) eighteen seats.

Table 18. Army Chiefs of Staff, 1971- 88

Name and Rank	Appointed by	Tenure
M.A.G. Osmany (General)	Bangladesh government-in- exile	December 1971-April 1972 (commander in chief of armed forces)
K.M. Shafiullah (Colonel)	Sheikh Mujibur Rahman	April 1972- August 1975 (dismissed after coup)
Ziaur Rahman (Major General)	Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed	August-November 1975 (dismissed in November 3 coup)
Khaled Musharraf (Brigadier)	Self	November 3-7, 1975 (ringleader of short-lived coup; killed on November 7)
Ziaur Rahman (Major General)	-Do-	November 7, 1975- November 1980
Hussain Muhammad Ershad (Major General, later Lieutenant General)	Ziaur Rahman	December 1980-August 1985
Atiqur Rahman (Lieutenant General)	Hussain Muhammad Ershad	September 1, 1986-

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