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Bangladesh vs India

123 shared metrics.

BangladeshLeads in 35

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IndiaLeads in 88

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Bangladesh

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Identity

Formal name: People's Republic of Bangladesh.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Bangladesh has more people than Russia despite having a tiny fraction of Russia's land area.

World Bank

India

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of India.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

India overtook China in 2023 to become the world's most populous country.

UN DESA 2023

Analysis

India leads in 88 of 123 shared metrics, while Bangladesh leads in 35.

Bangladesh's Teen Birth Rate is 4.2x that of India (73.18 per 1k vs 14.06 per 1k).

Bangladesh's Firms Hit by Power Outages is 2.6x that of India (71.35% of firms vs 19.91% of firms).

Bangladesh's Seafood Consumption per Person is 2.3x that of India (26.27 kg/person/yr vs 7.9 kg/person/yr).

Bangladesh's Broadband Access (%) is 1.9x that of India (8.0 per 100 people vs 2.7 per 100 people).

Bangladesh's Population Density is 1.7x that of India (1.3K /km² vs 483.68 /km²).

Key Comparisons

Teen Birth RateBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

73.18 per 1k

India

14.06 per 1k

Firms Hit by Power OutagesBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

71.35% of firms

India

19.91% of firms

Seafood Consumption per PersonBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

26.27 kg/person/yr

India

7.9 kg/person/yr

Broadband Access (%)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

8.0 per 100 people

India

2.7 per 100 people

Population DensityBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

1.3K /km²

India

483.68 /km²

Inflation RateBangladesh leads

India

Bangladesh

India

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Comparison of Bangladesh and India across 123 metrics
				Winner
Teen Birth Rate	73.18 per 1k	14.06 per 1k	420% higher	Bangladesh
Firms Hit by Power Outages	71.35% of firms	19.91% of firms	258% higher	Bangladesh
Seafood Consumption per Person	26.27 kg/person/yr	7.9 kg/person/yr	233% higher	Bangladesh
Broadband Access (%)	8.0 per 100 people	2.7 per 100 people	191% higher	Bangladesh
Population Density	1.3K /km²	483.68 /km²	173% higher	Bangladesh
Inflation Rate	10.5%	5.0%	110% higher	Bangladesh
Domestic Patents	74	26.3K	100% lower	India
Foreign Patents	373	35.3K	99% lower	India
Tourism Revenue	$217,899,993.9	$13,413,000,000	98% lower	India
Alcohol Consumption	0.09 L/adult/yr	4.1 L/adult/yr	98% lower	India
Capital Elevation	4.0 m	216 m	98% lower	India
Spirits Consumption	0.07 L/person/yr	2.3 L/person/yr	97% lower	India
Forest Area	18.8K km²	729.6K km²	97% lower	India
Scientific Publications	7.1K	207.4K	97% lower	India
Railway Length	2.5K km	65.6K km	96% lower	India
Air Passengers	6.63M	180.42M	96% lower	India
Land Area	130.0K km²	2.97M km²	96% lower	India
Total CO2 Emissions	124.19 Mt CO2e	3.2K Mt CO2e	96% lower	India
Beer Consumption	0.01 L/person/yr	0.13 L/person/yr	95% lower	India
Airports	17	318	95% lower	India
Electric Generating Capacity	22.70M kW	499.14M kW	95% lower	India
Water Withdrawal	35.87 B m³	647.5 B m³	94% lower	India
Electricity Generation	113.86 TWh	2.1K TWh	94% lower	India
Armed Forces Personnel	227.0K	3.07M	93% lower	India
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	3.0 sites	44 sites	93% lower	India
Coastline Length	580 km	7.0K km	92% lower	India
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.00 per 100k people	0.03 per 100k people	91% lower	India
Irrigated Land	83.7K km²	754.6K km²	89% lower	India
Vehicles per 1,000 People	17.91 per 1k people	158.15 per 1k people	89% lower	India
Population	174.37M	1.42B	88% lower	India
GDP (Nominal)	$450,119,432,068.85	$3,909,891,533,858.08	88% lower	India
Renewable Energy (%)	1.1%	9.1%	88% lower	India
Highest Elevation	1.1K m	8.6K m	88% lower	India
Solar Electricity Share	1.5%	9.4%	84% lower	India
Shipping Traffic	3.20M	19.72M	84% lower	India
Suicide Rate	2.8 per 100k	12.56 per 100k	78% lower	India
Milk Consumption per Person	21.91 kg/person/yr	84.5 kg/person/yr	74% lower	India
CO2 Per Capita	0.62 t/person/yr	2.2 t/person/yr	72% lower	India
Coal Electricity Share	21.51%	70.82%	70% lower	India
Merchant Fleet Size	558	1.9K	70% lower	India
Land Border Length	4.4K km	13.9K km	68% lower	India
Border Neighbors	2.0	6.0	67% lower	India
Nurses & Midwives	0.61 per 1k	1.7 per 1k	65% lower	India
Credit Card Ownership	1.7% of adults	4.6% of adults	63% lower	India
Energy Use (Per Capita)	297.12 kg oil eq/person	754.18 kg oil eq/person	61% lower	India
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	10 days/yr	25 days/yr	60% lower	India
Military Spending	0.94% of GDP	2.3% of GDP	59% lower	India
Insufficient Physical Activity	20.31% of adults	49.42% of adults	59% lower	India
Liberal Democracy Index	0.12	0.26	55% lower	India
Women in Parliament (%)	20.86%	13.65%	53% higher	Bangladesh
Exports (% GDP)	10.46% of GDP	21.16% of GDP	51% lower	India
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.34% of GDP	0.69% of GDP	51% lower	India
Education Spending (% GDP)	2.0% of GDP	4.1% of GDP	50% lower	India
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.01 per 1M people	0.00 per 1M people	50% higher	Bangladesh
Official Languages Count	1.0	2.0	50% lower	India
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	602.67 kWh/person	1.2K kWh/person	49% lower	India
Electoral Democracy Index	0.20	0.38	48% lower	India
Firms with Female Top Manager	3.6% of firms	6.8% of firms	48% lower	India
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	13.56 per 100k	24.96 per 100k	46% lower	India
Protected Land (%)	4.2%	7.7%	45% lower	India
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	0.90 per 1k	1.6 per 1k	44% lower	India
Forest Coverage (%)	14.49%	24.54%	41% lower	India
Youth Unemployment Rate	9.4% of youth labor force	16.02% of youth labor force	41% lower	India
Women in Senior Management	7.2% of managers	11.92% of managers	39% lower	India
Corruption Perceptions Index	24 pts	39 pts	38% lower	India
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	108 per 100 people	79 per 100 people	37% higher	Bangladesh
Smoking Rate	32.9%	24.3%	35% higher	Bangladesh
GDP Growth Rate	4.2%	6.5%	35% lower	India
Meat Consumption per Person	4.0 kg/person/yr	6.1 kg/person/yr	34% lower	India
University Enrollment Rate	23.73%	34.42%	31% lower	India
Tobacco Use Prevalence	32% of adults	24.4% of adults	31% higher	Bangladesh
Imports (% GDP)	16.32% of GDP	23.49% of GDP	31% lower	India
Death Rate	6.0 per 1k	8.7 per 1k	30% lower	India
Digital Payments Used	33.95% of adults	48.46% of adults	30% lower	India
Renewable Energy (%)	25%	34.9%	28% lower	India
Government Debt (% GDP)	33.3% of GDP	46.5% of GDP	28% lower	India
Health Spending (% GDP)	2.4% of GDP	3.3% of GDP	28% lower	India
Food Waste per Person	124.54 kg/person/yr	97.34 kg/person/yr	28% higher	Bangladesh
Obesity Rate	5.3%	7.2%	27% lower	India
Road Traffic Death Rate	18.6 per 100k	14.6 per 100k	27% higher	Bangladesh
Water Stress (%)	34.16%	44.78%	24% lower	India
Safe Drinking Water (%)	59.13%	76.44%	23% lower	India
Health Spending Per Capita	$61.09	$79.52	23% lower	India
Birth Rate	19.45 per 1k	15.91 per 1k	22% higher	Bangladesh
Firms Making Informal Payments	30.68% of firms	39.33% of firms	22% lower	India
Inequality (Gini)	30.9	25.5	21% higher	Bangladesh
Agricultural Land (%)	72.31%	60.06%	20% higher	Bangladesh
Internet Users (%)	45%	56%	20% lower	India
Sanitation Access (%)	67.62%	83.38%	19% lower	India
Women's Political Empowerment	0.54	0.66	18% lower	India
Firms Asked for Bribes	22.99% of firms	27.23% of firms	16% lower	India
Freedom of Expression Index	0.53	0.46	15% higher	Bangladesh
Political Corruption Index	0.78	0.68	14% higher	Bangladesh
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$9,646.77	$11,159.99	14% lower	India
Youth Population (%)	27.99%	24.62%	14% higher	Bangladesh
Dependency Ratio	52.64% of working-age pop.	46.56% of working-age pop.	13% higher	Bangladesh
Fertility Rate	2.3 children/woman	2.0 children/woman	13% higher	Bangladesh
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	7.6% of GDP	6.7% of GDP	13% higher	Bangladesh
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	42.38 µg/m³	48.39 µg/m³	12% lower	India
Unemployment Rate	4.7%	4.2%	11% higher	Bangladesh
Child Mortality	30.6 per 1k births	27.7 per 1k births	10% higher	Bangladesh
Median Age	25.3 years	28.1 years	10% lower	India
Mobile Money Accounts	20.77% of adults	23.1% of adults	10% lower	India
Elderly Population (%)	6.5%	7.1%	9% lower	India
Hypertension Prevalence	28.8% of adults	31.3% of adults	8% lower	India
Urban Population (%)	32.68%	35.38%	8% lower	India
GNI Per Capita	$2,820	$2,650	6% higher	Bangladesh
Life Evaluation Score	4.3 pts	4.5 pts	5% lower	India
Life Expectancy	74.7 years	72.0 years	4% higher	Bangladesh
Electricity Carbon Intensity	696.13 gCO2/kWh	670.13 gCO2/kWh	4% higher	Bangladesh
Informal Employment Share	84.04% of employed people	87.2% of employed people	4% lower	India
Average Weekly Work Hours	46.73 hrs/week	45.45 hrs/week	3% higher	Bangladesh
Adult Literacy Rate	79%	81.7%	3% lower	India
Human Development Index	0.69	0.69	equal	Bangladesh
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	3.0 time zones	equal	Bangladesh
Wind Electricity Share	0%	5.0%	ranked lower	India
Electricity Access (%)	99.5%	99.5%	equal	Bangladesh
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.72 per 1k	0.72 per 1k	equal	Bangladesh
Infant Mortality	24.4 per 1k births	24.5 per 1k births	equal	India
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Bangladesh
Can Raise Emergency Money	95.65% of adults	95.18% of adults	equal	Bangladesh
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	0% of GDP	-0.9% of GDP	ranked higher	Bangladesh
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0.22 per 1M people	ranked lower	India

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Analysis

India leads in 88 of 123 shared metrics, while Bangladesh leads in 35.

Bangladesh's Teen Birth Rate is 4.2x that of India (73.18 per 1k vs 14.06 per 1k).

Bangladesh's Firms Hit by Power Outages is 2.6x that of India (71.35% of firms vs 19.91% of firms).

Bangladesh's Seafood Consumption per Person is 2.3x that of India (26.27 kg/person/yr vs 7.9 kg/person/yr).

Bangladesh's Broadband Access (%) is 1.9x that of India (8.0 per 100 people vs 2.7 per 100 people).

Bangladesh's Population Density is 1.7x that of India (1.3K /km² vs 483.68 /km²).

Key Comparisons

Teen Birth RateBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

73.18 per 1k

India

14.06 per 1k

Firms Hit by Power OutagesBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

71.35% of firms

India

19.91% of firms

Seafood Consumption per PersonBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

26.27 kg/person/yr

India

7.9 kg/person/yr

Broadband Access (%)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

8.0 per 100 people

India

2.7 per 100 people

Population DensityBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

1.3K /km²

India

483.68 /km²

Inflation RateBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

10.5%

India

5.0%

Teen Birth Rate

73.18 per 1k

14.06 per 1k

Firms Hit by Power Outages

71.35% of firms

19.91% of firms

Seafood Consumption per Person

26.27 kg/person/yr

7.9 kg/person/yr

Broadband Access (%)

8.0 per 100 people

2.7 per 100 people

Population Density

1.3K /km²

483.68 /km²

Inflation Rate

10.5%

5.0%

Domestic Patents

26.3K

Foreign Patents

373

35.3K

Tourism Revenue

$217,899,993.9

$13,413,000,000

Alcohol Consumption

0.09 L/adult/yr

4.1 L/adult/yr

Capital Elevation

4.0 m

216 m

Spirits Consumption

0.07 L/person/yr

2.3 L/person/yr

Forest Area

18.8K km²

729.6K km²

Scientific Publications

7.1K

207.4K

Railway Length

2.5K km

65.6K km

Air Passengers

6.63M

180.42M

Land Area

130.0K km²

2.97M km²

Total CO2 Emissions

124.19 Mt CO2e

3.2K Mt CO2e

Beer Consumption

0.01 L/person/yr

0.13 L/person/yr

Airports

318

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Teen Birth Rate

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Seafood Consumption per Person

Broadband Access (%)

Population Density

Inflation Rate

Domestic Patents

Foreign Patents

Tourism Revenue

Alcohol Consumption

Capital Elevation

Spirits Consumption

Forest Area

Scientific Publications

Railway Length

Air Passengers

Land Area

Total CO2 Emissions

Beer Consumption

Airports

Electric Generating Capacity

Water Withdrawal

Electricity Generation

Armed Forces Personnel

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Coastline Length

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Irrigated Land

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Population

GDP (Nominal)

Renewable Energy (%)

Highest Elevation

Solar Electricity Share

Shipping Traffic

Suicide Rate

Milk Consumption per Person

CO2 Per Capita

Coal Electricity Share

Merchant Fleet Size

Land Border Length

Border Neighbors

Nurses & Midwives

Credit Card Ownership

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Military Spending

Insufficient Physical Activity

Liberal Democracy Index

Women in Parliament (%)

Exports (% GDP)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Education Spending (% GDP)

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Official Languages Count

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Electoral Democracy Index

Firms with Female Top Manager

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Protected Land (%)

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Forest Coverage (%)

Youth Unemployment Rate

Women in Senior Management

Corruption Perceptions Index

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Smoking Rate

GDP Growth Rate

Meat Consumption per Person

University Enrollment Rate

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Imports (% GDP)