 Prior to the Second Anglo-Burmese War, the area around Daik U was composed of small villages.After the British built a railway between Rangoon (now Yangon) and Pyuntaza in 1878, with a railway station at Daik U, a bustling village emerged, accelerated by the construction of a highway between Rangoon and Mandalay in 1923.The 2014 Myanmar Census reported that Daik-U Township had a population of 202,530.