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the government's effort to reduce the growth rate by allowing only one
child per couple, the population of China has continued to increase every
year. One of the poorest countries of the world, Bangladesh has about
153 million people living in a surface area of 147570 sq. km. In 1930, its
total population was only 35.5 million which has now increased to more
than four times to make it 153.50 million in 2008; Bangladesh now faces
a daunting challenge to feed its population where at least half of them are
living in food based poverty level (Cuffaro, 1997; Karim, 2011).
TABLE 1: Global population situation
Year
Population (in Billion)
1830
1
1901
1.4
1930
2
1960
3
1975
4
1987
5
1999
6
Total Fertility Rate
1969
6
1999
3
Population Growth Rate
1969
2.4
1999
1.9
World population projected for 2050: 9.1 billion
Sources: Prema Ramachardaran et al.; 2008; UNDP 2009. Rearranged and Modified
The total population of China, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nigeria,
Indonesia, Brazil and Ethiopia account for almost half of the total world
population (UNDP, 2008). A few Asian (e.g. Malaysia) and Middle East-
ern countries (e.g. Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia & Turkey) do not have any
demographic problem in regard to their population size until now, as they
possess suffi cient land and natural resources which provide them with
 
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