In 2011, the
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national
census in
Bangladesh, which provided a provisional estimate of the total population of the country as 142,319,000. The previous decennial census was the
2001 census. Data were recorded from all of the
districts and
upazilas and main
cities 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. Bangladesh and India also conducted their first-ever joint census of areas along their border in 2011.