Villages of Bangladesh

In Bangladesh, a village is the smallest territorial and social unit for administrative and representative purposes.[1] It is an elective unit of a Union Council from which a single council member is elected. Usually one village is designated as a ward and each union is made up of nine villages.

At the 1991 census, there were 68,038 villages in Bangladesh with an average of 232 households.[1] The rural areas of Bangladesh (i.e. villages) are characterized by higher growth rate of population and lower literacy rate compared to urban areas - but these gaps are decreasing.[2]

After independence, the villages in Bangladesh were underdeveloped in terms of infrastructure and economic activity. Traditional manual process driven agriculture used to be the predominant economic activity. However, the ingenuity and vitality demonstrated by the people is gradually driving the villages towards economic progress.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sirajul Islam; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir, eds. (2012). "Village". Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. OL 30677644M. Retrieved 22 March 2026.
  2. ^ "Bangladesh Statistics 2017" (PDF). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 June 2024. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  3. ^ Briscoe, John (Oct 2001). "Two Decades of Change in a Bangladeshi Village". Economic and Political Weekly. 36 (40): 3823–3828. ISSN 0012-9976 – via JSTOR.
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