In 2011, theBangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a nationalcensus inBangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000.[2] The previous decennial census was the2001 census.[3] Data were recorded from all of thedistricts andupazilas and maincities in Bangladesh, including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children etc.[citation needed] Bangladesh and India also conducted their first joint census of areas along their border in 2011.[4][5] According to the census, Hindus constituted 8.5 per cent of the population as of 2011, down from 9.6 per cent in the2001 census.
Bangladesh has a population of 144,043,697 as per the 2011 census report. The majority of 130,201,097 reported that they were Muslim, 12,301,331 reported as Hindu, 864,262 as Buddhist, 532,961 as Christian and 201,661 as others.[1]
Population By Religion (%) Muslim 90.39 Hindu 8.54 Buddhist 0.60 Christian 0.37 Others 0.14
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