The population of Dhaka stands at approximately
7.0 million. The city, in combination with localities
forming the wider metropolitan area, is home to over
15 million as of 2013. The population is growing by an
estimated 4.2% per year, one of the highest rates amongst
Asian cities. The continuing growth reflects ongoing
migration from rural areas to the Dhaka urban region,
which accounted for 60% of the city's growth in the 1960s
and 1970s. More recently, the city's population has also
grown with the expansion of city boundaries, a process that
added more than a million people to the city in the 1980s.[65
According to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dhaka
will be home to 25 million people by the year 2025. It is
very apparent that due to heavy population in Dhaka City,
traffic load is also huge. This huge population needs to
transport from one place to another. As a result enormous
traffic load is very common.