According to 2014 statistics, the population of Bac Giang province has over 1.6 million people. The population density was 420.9 people per capita / km2, higher than the average population density of the country. Density of population distribution is uneven, concentrated mainly in the midlands area (city of Bac Giang, Hoa Hiep, Vietnam Yen, Lang Giang and Tan Yen, Yen Dung); mountain regions (Son Dong, Luc Ngan, Yen, Luc Nam) distributed sparsely populated.
The population living in urban areas is about 183 918 people, representing about 10.13% of the population, the population in rural areas is 1,440,538, accounting for 90.38%. Number of people in the working age population accounted for 62.15%, while workers with vocational training accounting for 26%; accounting for 8.88% of poor households. The labor structure in the province is a shift towards increasing the proportion of workers in the field of industrial production, service, reduce the proportion of labor in the field of agriculture - forestry - fishery, fit with huongcong cents industrialization and modernization in the province.