PTI :
The number of Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh has grown by one per cent to 1.70 crore inone year constituting 10.7 per cent of the population by theend of 2015, an official report said on Thursday.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) said theirlatest vital sample statistics report found the country’stotal population to be 15.89 crore by the end of 2015 with thenumber of Hindus at 1.70 crore. Previous BBS studies showed Bangladesh’s Hindu populationsize was 1.55 crore in 2014 suggesting that the numbers of thecountry’s largest minority community increased by 1.5 millionin one year. Hindus are the second largest population group interms of religion.
The statistics come as Hindu community leaders expressedfears that their number was decreasing gradually as a sense ofinsecurity forced many Hindus to leave the country forneighbouring India over the decades.
The number of Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh has grown by one per cent to 1.70 crore inone year constituting 10.7 per cent of the population by theend of 2015, an official report said on Thursday.
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) said theirlatest vital sample statistics report found the country’stotal population to be 15.89 crore by the end of 2015 with thenumber of Hindus at 1.70 crore. Previous BBS studies showed Bangladesh’s Hindu populationsize was 1.55 crore in 2014 suggesting that the numbers of thecountry’s largest minority community increased by 1.5 millionin one year. Hindus are the second largest population group interms of religion.
The statistics come as Hindu community leaders expressedfears that their number was decreasing gradually as a sense ofinsecurity forced many Hindus to leave the country forneighbouring India over the decades.
