<i>Male, female ratio close</i>
The country has 100.3 males against 100 females, though over 119 males live in the capital at present against 100 females.
There are 7.12 crore males against 7.11 crore females in the country, of which 64.6 lakh males live in Dhaka along with 54.2 lakh females, revealed the primary data of the national population census yesterday.
According to the report, the number of males is higher mainly in the urban areas than the rural parts, except the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
During the last decade, the number of women has increased by around four million, which the primary results marked as “a spectacular change in the sex composition of Bangladesh's population.”
The sex ratio gap narrowed down by 5.73 percent in this period as the number of men was 106.4 against 100 women in 2001 making the sex ratio 106.4, compared to almost a similar figure of 106.1 in 1991, demonstrates the report.
It attributed such change in sex composition to several factors including a significant increase in migration, mainly concerning males.
Improved census coverage of the female population and a decrease in maternal and female child mortality also might have affected the change, the report pointed out.
In Bandarban, the number of males is 2 lakh while 1.8 lakh are female, in Rangamati 3.1 lakh males against 2.8 lakh females and in Khagrachhari 3.1 lakh males against 2.9 lakh females, making the sex ratio 110.3, 110.8 and 104.6 respectively.
But in the Chittagong division, the number of males are 1.37 crore while the females are 1.43 crore, making the sex ratio 96.1.
A total of 11.35 lakh males live in Chandpur, while the number of women is 12.54 lakh.
The average sex ratio gap in Khulna and Rajshahi divisions stands at almost 100 women for 100 men.
A further research on these topics will be done after receiving the final tally in September, noted the study.
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