Demographic Dynamics of the Aged People in Bangladesh: Evidences from a ‘Low Human Developed’ Country

The main objective of this presentation is to explore the demographic dynamics of the aged population in Bangladesh. It is important as aged people have appeared in national population and development context as a significant proportion of 7.5% of the total population in the last census, 2011. Secondary information was analysed to have an overview of demographic and related socio-economic context. The dramatic fertility decline in the 1990s and declining mortality trends have set the demographic background for the emergence of ageing. The situation became more favourable and absolute number of aged people has become an overwhelming 10.77 million in 2011 which is larger than total population of many countries. The growth rate of aged has always been higher than the national population since the 1990s and it has become more than double than the national population for the first time in 2011. With lots of demographic and socio-economic diversity, this huge population is struggling to maintain humanly amidst an emerging unfavourable socio-cultural milieu due to urbanisation, modernisation and overall underdevelopment context. This presentation found it necessary to explore and analyse aged population’s demographic and socio-economic dynamics to have proper policies and its implementation to ameliorate its vulnerability.