About the Situation
By the Numbers
More than 158,570,000 people live in Bangladesh
40% of the population lives below the poverty line
Less than half of the population is literate
(Sources: U.N. and U.S. government)
Bangladesh is one of the world’s most-densely populated and poorest countries in the world.
Some 40% of the population lives below the poverty line, according to the U.S. government. And many of its 158 million residents survive on less than $2 a day.
Nearly 20% of the population relies on agriculture for income—but tropical storms and coastal flooding hinder many Bangladeshi’s abilities to make a secure living from farming, exacerbating impoverished and dire living conditions.
How Islamic Relief is Helping
In 1991, Islamic ReliefTM provided vital emergency assistance to the people of Bangladesh in response to a tropical cyclone. Islamic Relief has worked in to help residents there ever since. Islamic Relief USATM has supported several programs in the region to help empower Bangladesh’s impoverished.
Here are currently and recently completed programs in Bangladesh:
