Fulbari had a literacy rate (age 7 and over) of 52.58%, compared to the national average of 51.8%, and a sex ratio of 978 females per 1000 males.

The government was working in 2006 with Asia Energy (now Global Coal Resources PLc - GCR) on a plan to develop an open-pit mine in Fulbari, Dinajpur.

Protesters have said such a mine would endanger an important food-producing region, as well as the quality of the water supply depended on by tens of thousands of people.

As talks began again on the project, protesters conducted a week-long march from Fulbari to Dhaka in October 2010.

In December 2010, an alliance of groups protested in London at a meeting of GCR company officials and stockholders.

The Upazila is divided into Fulbari Municipality and seven union parishads: Aladipur, Aloary, Bethdighi, Daulatpur, Kazihal, Khairbari, and Shibnagor.