2006 in Bangladesh

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The year 2006 was the 35th year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was the last year of the rule of BNP led by Khaleda Zia and also the first year of the regime of the fourth caretaker Government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed.

+ Demographic Indicators for Bangladesh in 2006 Population, total140,921,154 Population density (per km2)1082.6 Population growth (annual %)1.3% Male to Female Ratio (every 100 Female)104.7 Urban population (% of total)27.5% Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)23.4 Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)6.1 Mortality rate, under 5 (per 1,000 live births)61 Life expectancy at birth, total (years)68.2 Fertility rate, total (births per woman)2.6

On 13 October, Dr. Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank jointly won Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to create economic and social development from below". Yunus was the first Bangladeshi to ever get a Nobel Prize. After receiving the news of the important award, Yunus announced that he would use part of his share of the $1.4 million (equivalent to $1.4 in 2006 is equivalent to about <calculated amount> in recent years million in ) award money to create a company to make low cost, high nutrition food for the poor; while the rest would go toward setting up an eye hospital for the poor in Bangladesh.

Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Betar were awarded for their social work and contribution in the war of liberation (respectively).

21 January – Shamsul Islam Khan, artist and entrepreneur (b. 1926). 19 March – Kazi Golam Mahbub, activist and politician (b. 1927). 11 May – Humayun Khan Panni, politician (b. 1921). 30 May – Husna Banu Khanam, educationist, musician and journalist (b. 1922). 1 July – Shaukat Ali Khan, lawyer and politician (b. 1926). 15 September – Nitun Kundu, artist and entrepreneur (b. 1935). 26 September – Aftab Ahmed, academician (b. 1949). 7 October – Nurul Islam, broadcaster (b. 1928). 10 October – Sheikh Akijuddin, entrepreneur (b. 1929). 31 December – Shefali Ghosh, music artist (b. 1941).