Bangladesh: The World’s Most Densely Populated Country

From the Editors of E Magazine February 28, 2005

Bangladesh’s Agonizing Human Problems are Caused, In part, by it’s incredible population density

The most densley populated nation on Earth is not Japan or China, it’s Bangladesh, a country the size of Wisconsin but with half the population of the U.S. As the world’s population increases geometrically, from 1.3 billion 80 years ago to 5.6 billion now and a projected 13 billion by 2040, Bangladesh makes for a sobering case study.