Citizens of the country of Bangladesh
This article is about Bangladeshi people. For Bengali people as ethnic group, see
Bengalis .
Ethnic group
Bangladeshis বাংলাদেশী
c. 190 million Bangladesh 174,000,000[ 1] Diaspora :c. 13 million+[ 2] Saudi Arabia 2,116,192[ 3] UAE 1,090,000[ 4] Malaysia 1,000,000[ 5] Oman 680,242[ 6] United Kingdom 652,535[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Qatar 400,000[ 10] Italy 400,000[ 11] Kuwait 350,000[ 12] United States 304,245[ 13] South Africa 300,000[ 14] Bahrain 180,000[ 15] Lebanon 160,000[ 16] Jordan 150,000[ 17] Singapore 150,000[ 18] Maldives 150,000[ 19] Greece 80,000[ 20] Canada 75,425[ 21] Portugal 70,000 (2024)[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] [ 25] Australia 51,491[ 26] Spain 50,000[ 11] [ 27] Brunei 30,000–40,000[ 28] Japan 27,962[ 29] Mauritius 25,000[ 30] South Korea 22,000[ 31] Libya 20,000[ 32] Poland 18,000[ 33] Germany 16,410[ 34] Egypt 15,000[ 35] France 15,000[ 36] Sweden 12,279[ 37] Finland 7,000[ 38] Brazil 6,000[ 39] Netherlands 6,000[ 20] Belgium 5,000[ 20] Austria 3,300[ 40] New Zealand 2,337[ 41] Russia 2,000[ 42] Bengali , various languages of Bangladesh English[ 43] Majority : Islam [ 44] Minority : Hinduism , Buddhism , Christianity [ 45] and others (including atheism , agnosticism and unaffiliated )[ 46] other Indo-Aryan peoples
Bangladeshis (Bengali : বাংলাদেশী [ 47] [ˈbaŋladeʃi] ) are the citizens and nationals of Bangladesh , a South Asian country centred on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay .
Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the permanent residents of the former East Pakistan were transformed into citizens of a new republic.[ 48] Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous nation . The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolinguistically Bengalis , an Indo-Aryan people . The population of Bangladesh is concentrated in the fertile Bengal delta , which has been the centre of urban and agrarian civilizations for millennia. The country's highlands, including the Chittagong Hill Tracts and parts of the Sylhet Division , are home to various tribal minorities.
Bengali Muslims are the predominant ethnoreligious group of Bangladesh with a population of 150.36 million, which makes up 91.04% of the country's population as of 2022.[ 49] [ 50] [ 51] The minority Bengali Hindu population made up approximately 7.95% of the population of the country according to the 2022 Census[ 52] [ 53] Non-Bengali Muslims make up the largest immigrant community; while the Tibeto-Burman Chakmas , who speak the Indo-Aryan Chakma language , are the largest indigenous ethnic group after Indo-Aryan Bengalis.[ 54] The Austroasiatic Santhals are the largest aboriginal community.
The Bangladeshi diaspora is concentrated in the Arab world , North America and the United Kingdom . A significant number of Non-Resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) have dual citizenship in different countries.
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