The annual population growth rate has gone up again. In 2013 the growth rate was 1.37% and the year before it was 1.36%. There has been a percentage rise of 0.01. In 2009 the rate has also been 1.36%. This was revealed by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in its 2013 Monitoring... The annual population growth rate has gone up again. In 2013 the growth rate was 1.37% and the year before it was 1.36%. There has been a percentage rise of 0.01. In 2009 the rate has also been 1.36%. This was revealed by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) in its 2013 Monitoring the Situation of Vital Statistics report. Though the rate of population increase has gone up, the total reproductive rate has gone down. According to BBS, in 2013 the reproductive rate was 2.11%.