The project background is an important part of every proposal. It can be very similar to the project rationale or the project justification. It shows your donor that you did your homework and that your project is planned well. But where can you get the information and data for your project background? And how does one actually look like? Here you have an example project background for Bangladesh that you can use as a blueprint. You can copy it and adjust it for your own purposes.
Sample Project Background for Bangladesh
While Bangladesh may seem small compared to its giant neighbors India and China, this democratic state has some of the highest population densities in the world. Bangladesh is one of the world’s least developed countries with 31.5% of its 157,826,578 people living under the poverty line. Geographically, it is situated in the Ganges Delta, which the country’s large agriculture sector depends on to employ around half of the population.
In recent times, the country has boosted economic growth to 6% annually. Still, the unemployment rate is 4.1%, while underemployment is at 40%. According to the CIA World Factbook, agriculture contributes to 14.2% of GDP and employs the largest number of people in the counrty. By comparison, industry and services contribute 29.2% and 56.5% respectably to GDP. Bangladesh exports nearly $31 billion of goods every year, most of which is garments. It is the world’s second-largest garment exporter.
About 64.2% population resides in rural areas and 35.8% in urban areas of Bangladesh. The literacy rate is 72.8% and the average Bengali has 10 years of schooling.
The fertility rate in Bangladesh is 2.17 births per woman. The maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births is 176. About 32.6% of children less than 5 years of age is going through Malnutrition in the nation which is a serious problem.
According to Human Development Reports, Bangladesh ranks 139 in the Human Development Reports and ranks 119 in the Gender Inequality Index of the United Nations Development Programme among 180 countries.
Along with all of these issues, Bangladesh is also dealing with a huge wave of refugees from Myanmar. In what is widely called a genocide, some one million Rohingya, a Muslim-majority ethnic group, have entered Bangladesh since 2017 to escape violence in Myanmar.
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This is an example that you can use in case if it is fitting for your project. The sources of information have plenty of more reliable data that you could use to adjust this sample to your needs. Other sources that you could use are the OECD, World Bank or the UN.
Additional statistics included below. Unless otherwise indicated, the data was retrieved from the CIA World Factbook.
Demographics
- Population: 157,826,578
- Density: 157,826,578per sq./km (The World Bank)
- Area (Rural/ Urban): 64.2% /35.8%
- Under poverty line: 31.5%
Education
- Literacy rate: 72.8%
- Average years of schooling: 10 years
- Average years of schooling (male/ female): 10 /10
Health
- Average life expectancy: 73.4 years
- Child mortality: 32.7 deaths/1,000 live births
- Maternal mortality: 176 deaths/100,000 live births
- Stunting/malnourishment in children: 32.6%%
- Fertility rate: 2.17 children born/woman
Economy
- Most important sectors: Mining and Agriculture
- GDP: $686.5 billion Agriculture, Service and Industry
- Unemployment rate: 4.1% (40% 0f population are underemployed)
Ecology
- % of forested area: 11.1 %(CIA World Factbook)
- Number of National Parks: 17 National parks
Other
- Rank Gender Equality Index: 0.520 (UNDP)
- Child marriage: 65% (20-24 yrs.) 1999 (UN data)
- Human Development Index: 0.624 (UNDP)
- Corruption Rank: 143 out of 180 (Transparency)
- Scores of Ease of doing business: 40.99
- Ease of Doing Business Rank: 177 among 190 countries. (Doing Business)
