Last week the results of the fifth Population and Housing Census conducted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)were announced. The country’s population as of 2011 stands at about 152 million.

The foreign minister reiterated that the government’s clear position is that the only sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis is their safe, voluntary and dignified repatriation.

An IDA grant is helping Bangladesh provide basic services and build disaster and social resilience for nearly a million Rohingya people who fled extreme violence in neighboring Myanmar and settled in ...