Multiprocessing - Progress bar not updating for starmap

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4.66.2 3.9.18 (main, Jan 4 2024, 00:00:00)
[GCC 11.4.1 20230605 (Red Hat 11.4.1-2)] linux

I am performing multi-processing on a python dictionarry using the multiprocessing.starmap() method.

pool = multiprocessing.Pool()

with pool as p:
    with tqdm.tqdm(total=len(dict)) as pbar:
        for _ in p.starmap(func, dict.items()):
            pbar.update()    
            
pool.close()
pool.join()

However, this implementation does not update the progress bar. The bar is either empty during the complete execution of the program:

  0%|                                                                                            | 0/2414 [00:07<?, ?it/s]

Or it is complete, at the end of the execution:

100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 2414/2414 [01:42<00:00, 23.53it/s]

I understand it is due to the fact that the starmap() method does not return an iterator. This code would work if using the imap() method though. While using starmap(), what are the possibilities?