Bangladesh
Bangladesh in numbers
39 measures of Bangladesh from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$3.67B in 2025
- Military spending per person$22 in 2025
- Military share of state spending7.1% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel227,000 people in 2020
- National power1.01% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.32% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports32 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports2 million TIV in 1984
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Bangladesh with…
- Bangladesh vs India
- Bangladesh vs China
- Bangladesh vs United States
- Bangladesh vs Indonesia
- Bangladesh vs Pakistan
- Bangladesh vs Nigeria
- Bangladesh vs Brazil
- Bangladesh vs Russia
- Bangladesh vs Ethiopia
- Bangladesh vs Mexico
- Bangladesh vs Japan
- Bangladesh vs Egypt
- Bangladesh vs Philippines
- Bangladesh vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Bangladesh vs Vietnam
- Bangladesh vs Iran
- Bangladesh vs Türkiye
- Bangladesh vs Germany
- Bangladesh vs Thailand
- Bangladesh vs Tanzania
- Bangladesh vs United Kingdom
- Bangladesh vs France
- Bangladesh vs South Africa
- Bangladesh vs Italy
- Bangladesh vs Kenya
- Bangladesh vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Bangladesh vs Colombia
- Bangladesh vs South Korea
- Bangladesh vs Sudan
- Bangladesh vs Spain
- Bangladesh vs Argentina
- Bangladesh vs Canada
- Bangladesh vs Saudi Arabia
- Bangladesh vs Poland
- Bangladesh vs Nepal
- Bangladesh vs Australia
- Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
- Bangladesh vs Netherlands
- Bangladesh vs Belgium
- Bangladesh vs United Arab Emirates
- Bangladesh vs Sweden
- Bangladesh vs Israel
- Bangladesh vs Austria
- Bangladesh vs Switzerland
- Bangladesh vs Singapore
- Bangladesh vs Ireland
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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