Bangladesh

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The economy has grown 5-6% per year since 1996 despite political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, insufficient power supplies, and slow implementation of economic reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, and inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than half of GDP is generated through the service sector, nearly two-thirds of Bangladeshis are employed in the agriculture sector, with rice as the single-most-important product. Bangladesh's growth was resilient during the 2008-09 global financial crisis and recession. Garment exports, totaling $12.3 billion in FY09 and remittances from overseas Bangladeshis totaling $9.7 billion in FY09 accounted for almost 25% of GDP.

16 years of age for voluntary military service; 17 years of age for officers (both with parental consent); conscription legally possible in emergency, but has never been implemented (2008)

conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh conventional short form: Bangladesh local long form: Gana Prajatantri Banladesh local short form: Banladesh former: East Bengal, East Pakistan

major infectuios dises degree of risk: high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria are high risks in some locations water contact disease: leptospirosis animal contact disease: rabies //note:// highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has been identified in this country; it poses a negligible risk with extremely rare cases possible among US citizens who have close contact with birds (2009)

Citations: https://www.cia.gov/library/ publications/the-world- factbook/geos/bg.html Questions: conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh conventional short form: Bangladesh local long form: Gana Prajatantri Banladesh local short form: Banladesh former: East Bengal, East Pakistan Use to be religious but now political Influence from India and from Pakistan
 * Mr. Md. Zillur Rahman, the 19th President of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, was born in a respectable Muslim family under Bhairab Thana of Kishoreganj district on March 09, 1929.
 * The Parliament of Bangladesh is a unicameral legislature consisting of 300 members.
 * SHEIKH HASINA, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, was born on 28 September, 1947 at Tungipara under Gopalganj district. She is the eldest of five children of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of independent Bangladesh.
 * All citizens of Bangladesh of and above the age of 18, who have registered themselves as voters, form the electorate. Each constituency elects one Member of Parliament on the basis of direct election. All citizens of Bangladesh having attained the age of 25 qualify to be elected to Parliament.
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Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh
 * Only 39% (broad range) of Bangladesh has clean sanitized water to drink.
 * The poor water quality has been recognized by NWP or National Water Policy but has not been resolved
 * Groundwater is the main fresh water in Bangladesh
 * Arsenic contamination in water
 * The [|World Health Organization (WHO)] estimated in 2000 that between 35 and 77 million of the 125 million Bangladeshis were at risk of drinking contaminated water
 * 70 million people still drink water which exceeds the WHO guidelines of 10 micrograms per liter of arsenic, and 30 million drink water containing more than the Bangladesh National Standard of 50 micrograms per liter leading to [|chronic arsenic poisoning].
 * On the other hand, surface water is usually polluted and requires treatment.[|[9]] Taking arsenic contamination into account, it was estimated that in 2004 still 74% of the population had access to arsenic-free drinking water
 * ow level of cost recovery due to low tariffs and poor [|economic efficiency], especially in urban areas where revenues from water sales do not even cover operating costs. In rural areas, users contribute 34% of investment costs,[|[10]] and at least in piped water schemes supported by the [|Rural Development Academy] recover operating costs

97 (2007) [|[4]] || 0.08 (in Dhaka 2007)[|[5]][|[6]] ||
 * ~ Water coverage (broad definition) || 74%[|[1]] ||
 * ~ Sanitation coverage (broad definition) || 39%[|[1]] ||
 * ~ Continuity of supply (%) || Intermittent [|[2]][|[3]] ||
 * ~ Average urban water use (l/c/d) || 115 (in Dhaka 2001)[|[2]]
 * ~ Average urban water tariff (US$/m³) || 0.12 (Average of main urban areas in 2007) [|[4]]
 * ~ Share of household metering || 67% (2007) [|[4]] ||
 * ~ Annual investment in WSS || US$0.55/capita (Average 1994/95-2000/01)[|[7]] ||
 * ~ Share of self-financing by utilities || Very low ||
 * ~ Share of tax-financing || Low ||
 * ~ Share of external financing || n/a ||

(25% of the population) ||~ Rural (75% of the population) ||~ Total ||
 * ~ Access to Water and Sanitation in the Bangladesh (2004)[|[1]] ||
 * ~  ||~ Urban
 * Water[|[1]] || [|Broad definition] || 82% || 72% || 74% ||
 * ^  || House connections || 24% || 0% || 6% ||
 * Sanitation[|[1]] || [|Broad definition] || 51% || 35% || 39% ||
 * ^  || Sewerage || 7% || 0% || 2% ||