2003 in Bangladesh

2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2003rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 3rd year of the 3rd millennium, the 3rd year of the 21st century, and the 4th year of the 2000s decade.

← 2002 2001 2000 2003 in Bangladesh → 2004 2005 2006
Centuries:	20th 21st
Decades:	1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2003 List of years in Bangladesh

The year 2003 was the 32nd year after the independence of Bangladesh. It was also the third year of the third term of the Government of Khaleda Zia.

Incumbents

Khaleda
Zia

• President: Iajuddin Ahmed
• Prime Minister: Khaleda Zia
• Chief Justice: Mainur Reza Choudhury (until 22 June), Khondokar Mahmud Hasan (starting 22 June)

Demography

Demographic Indicators for Bangladesh in 2003[1]

Population, total	139,019,001
Population density (per km^2)	1,068.0
Population growth (annual %)	1.8%
Male to Female Ratio (every 100 Female)	104.1
Urban population (% of total)	25.4%
Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)	25.6
Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)	6.4
Mortality rate, under 5 (per 1,000 live births)	74.3
Life expectancy at birth, total (years)	67
Fertility rate, total (births per woman)	2.9

Climate

Climate data for Bangladesh in 2003
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Daily mean °C (°F)	17.8 (64.0)	21.2 (70.2)	24.3 (75.7)	28.1 (82.6)	28.3 (82.9)	28.1 (82.6)	28.4 (83.1)	28.7 (83.7)	28.7 (83.7)	27.4 (81.3)	23.6 (74.5)	19.2 (66.6)	25.3 (77.5)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	5.0 (0.20)	10.9 (0.43)	24.2 (0.95)	70.6 (2.78)	226.9 (8.93)	348.0 (13.70)	651.0 (25.63)	151.2 (5.95)	150.3 (5.92)	299.1 (11.78)	36.3 (1.43)	20.1 (0.79)	1,993.6 (78.49)
Source: Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of University of East Anglia (UEA)[2]

Economy

Key Economic Indicators for Bangladesh in 2003[1]

National Income
	Current US$	Current BDT	% of GDP
GDP	$60.2 billion	BDT3,483.2 billion
GDP growth (annual %)	4.7%
GDP per capita	$432.7	BDT25,056
Agriculture, value added	$11.9 billion	BDT690.1 billion	20.9%
Industry, value added	$13.5 billion	BDT782.8 billion	23.7%
Services, etc., value added	$31.5 billion	BDT1,825.2 billion	55.3%
Balance of Payment
	Current US$	Current BDT	% of GDP
Current account balance	$0.1 billion		.2%
Imports of goods and services	$11.1 billion	BDT565.2 billion	16.2%
Exports of goods and services	$7,928.3 million	BDT398.2 billion	11.4%
Foreign direct investment, net inflows	$268.3 million		0.4%
Personal remittances, received	$3,191.7 million		5.3%
Total reserves (includes gold) at year end	$2,624.6 million
Total reserves in months of imports	2.8

Note: For the year 2003 average official exchange rate for BDT was 58.15 per US$.

Events

• 9 January - The Operation Clean Heart came to an end.[3] The Bangladesh Government passed an indemnity law that provided legal protection to security personnel who participated in the operation.[4] Later, in November 2015 Bangladesh High Court declared the indemnity ordinance illegal and scrapped it.[3]
• 17 January - A bomb attack at the Failya Paglar Mela in Tangail, Bangladesh that resulted in the death of 7 people.[5][6]
• 20 January – Bangladesh wins the 2003 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup.
• 8 July - A ferry named MV Nasrin-1 sunk in the Meghna River near Chandpur at midnight. Of the 750 people on board 220 were rescued.[7][8]
• 27 July – 175 fishermen go missing after storms strike the coast of Bangladesh and 300 homes are destroyed in an earthquake which strikes Chittagong.[9]

Sports

• International football:
  • Bangladesh hosted the 2003 South Asian Football Federation Gold Cup in January and became the champions defeating the Maldives in the final.
  • In November Bangladesh played 2 matches against Tajikistan in home and away system as part of 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification – AFC First Round and lost both matches.
• Domestic football:
  • Muktijoddha Sangsad KC won National Football Championship while Mohammedan SC became runner-up.[10]
• Cricket:
  • The South African national cricket team toured Bangladesh in April and May and played a two-match Test series against the Bangladeshi national cricket team. South Africa won the Test series 2–0.[11]
  • The Bangladesh national cricket team played two Test matches and three One Day International (ODI) matches on a mid-year tour of Australia in 2003. Australia easily won the two-match Test series. Bangladesh's performances' did not get any better during the ODI series—failing to score more than 147 in any innings—as Australia completed a clean-sweep.
  • The Bangladeshi national cricket team visited Pakistan in August to September 2003 and played a three-match Test series against the Pakistani national cricket team. Pakistan won the Test series 3–0. In addition, the teams played a five-match Limited Overs International (LOI) series which Pakistan won 5–0.[12]
  • The English cricket team toured Bangladesh from 12 October to 12 November 2003, playing a two-match Test series and a three-match One Day International series; England won all five matches to take whitewashes in both series.

See also

• 2000s in Bangladesh
• List of Bangladeshi films of 2003
• Timeline of Bangladeshi history

References

1. "World Development Indicators". The World Bank. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
2. "Climate Change Knowledge Portal". The World Bank Group. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
3. "HC scraps law giving indemnity for 'Operation Clean Heart'". bdnews24.com. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
4. "Operation Clean Heart indemnity law illegal: HC". The Daily Star. 13 September 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
5. Ahsan, Shamim. "The Blame Game Goes on". Star Magazine. The Daily Star. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
6. Bammi, Y. M. (2010). India Bangladesh Relations: The Way Ahead. Vij Books India Pvt Ltd. p. 228. ISBN 978-93-82573-20-3.
7. "Hopes dying down: 15 bloated bodies recovered, more float downstream, no sight of sunken launch, raging currents frustrate rescuers, villagers keep vigil on Meghna banks". The Daily Star. 11 July 2003. Archived from the original on 17 November 2003. Retrieved 17 November 2003.
8. "Bodies surfacing from ferry disaster". Chicago Tribune. 11 July 2003. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
9. "Fears grow for Bangladesh fishermen". BBC News. 27 July 2003.
10. "List of Champions". Atsushi Fujioka for Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 16 October 2018.
11. "South Africa in Bangladesh 2003". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
12. "Bangladesh in Pakistan 2003". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2014.