People’s tendency to migrate to villages from cities increased during the coronavirus pandemic. The tendency is still prevailing even after the end of the pandemic. Rather, the tendency is gradually increasing every year for socioeconomic reasons. According to the figures from the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), the number of people who migrated to villages has doubled within just two …
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The number of people leaving the country is on the rise
The BBS survey shows that in terms of internal migration, only the number of people moving to villages from cities has increased. The figures for other types of internal migration haven’t increased that much. Rather, it declined in many cases. Some migrants leave their country because they want to work, study, or join family, for example. Others feel they must …
Read More »A Bangladeshi wastes 82kg of food a year at home
An estimated 82kg of food is wasted by a person in a Bangladeshi home per year, much higher than that in rich countries like the United States (73kg), the Netherlands (59 kg), and Japan (60kg), a UN study has found. Every year, 14.10 million metric tons of food are wasted by households in Bangladesh, according to the “Food Waste Index …
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