DHAKA (AFP) ? Bangladesh's population is up nearly 10 percent in a decade to 142.3 million, but growth is slowing as more women enter the labour force, the government said on Saturday.
Some 300,000 officials made the headcount for the once-a-decade census, going door-to-door in every village, town and city in the Muslim-majority South Asian nation.
The population of impoverished Bangladesh stood at 130 million a decade ago.
"Family sizes are shrinking fast due to the entry of more women into the workplace, cravings for a better standard of living (involving fewer children) and the success of the country's population control programme," head of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), Shahjahan Mollah, told AFP.
The preliminary census findings are just slightly lower than the United Nations' estimate of Bangladesh's population at 148.7 million people.
Bangladesh launched the latest census in mid-March with the ceremonial counting of the families of the president and the prime minister.
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