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Bangladesh vs Myanmar

112 shared metrics.

BangladeshLeads in 55

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MyanmarLeads in 57

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Bangladesh

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

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

Myanmar

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: Union of Burma.

CIA 2026

Identity

Name origin: both "Burma" and "Myanmar" derive from the name of the majority Burman (Bamar) ethnic group, with the term myanma, or "the strong," being the group's name f…

CIA 2026

Analysis

Myanmar leads in 57 of 112 shared metrics, while Bangladesh leads in 55.

Bangladesh's Scientific Publications is 42.2x that of Myanmar (7.1K vs 163.39).

Bangladesh's Freedom of Expression Index is 19.3x that of Myanmar (0.53 vs 0.03).

Bangladesh's Population Density is 14.9x that of Myanmar (1.3K /km² vs 82.94 /km²).

Bangladesh's Water Stress (%) is 9.3x that of Myanmar (34.16% vs 3.3%).

Bangladesh's Liberal Democracy Index is 6.7x that of Myanmar (0.12 vs 0.01).

Key Comparisons

Scientific PublicationsBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

7.1K

Myanmar

163.39

Freedom of Expression IndexBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

0.53

Myanmar

0.03

Population DensityBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

1.3K /km²

Myanmar

82.94 /km²

Water Stress (%)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

34.16%

Myanmar

3.3%

Liberal Democracy IndexBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

0.12

Myanmar

0.01

GDP (Nominal)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

$450,119,432,068.85

Myanmar

$74,068,349,523.81

All Metrics

Scientific Publications

Bangladesh

7.1K

Myanmar

163.39

4219% higher

Freedom of Expression Index

Bangladesh

0.53

Myanmar

0.03

1927% higher

Population Density

Bangladesh

1.3K /km²

Myanmar

82.94 /km²

1490% higher

Water Stress (%)

Bangladesh

34.16%

Myanmar

3.3%

931% higher

Liberal Democracy Index

Bangladesh

0.12

Myanmar

0.01

673% higher

GDP (Nominal)

Bangladesh

$450,119,432,068.85

Myanmar

$74,068,349,523.81

508% higher

Merchant Fleet Size

Bangladesh

558

Myanmar

101

452% higher

Irrigated Land

Bangladesh

83.7K km²

Myanmar

17.1K km²

388% higher

Electricity Generation

Bangladesh

113.86 TWh

Myanmar

24.68 TWh

361% higher

Total CO2 Emissions

Bangladesh

124.19 Mt CO2e

Myanmar

31.36 Mt CO2e

296% higher

Coal Electricity Share

Bangladesh

21.51%

Myanmar

5.5%

289% higher

Shipping Traffic

Bangladesh

3.20M

Myanmar

846.4K

278% higher

Agricultural Land (%)

Bangladesh

72.31%

Myanmar

19.91%

263% higher

Electric Generating Capacity

Bangladesh

22.70M kW

Myanmar

7.42M kW

206% higher

Population

Bangladesh

174.37M

Myanmar

57.93M

201% higher

Solar Electricity Share

Bangladesh

1.5%

Myanmar

0.55%

175% higher

Broadband Access (%)

Bangladesh

8.0 per 100 people

Myanmar

3.0 per 100 people

167% higher

Electoral Democracy Index

Bangladesh

0.20

Myanmar

0.08

144% higher

GNI Per Capita

Bangladesh

$2,820

Myanmar

$1,210

133% higher

Teen Birth Rate

Bangladesh

73.18 per 1k

Myanmar

33.51 per 1k

118% higher

Comparison of Bangladesh and Myanmar across 112 metrics
				Winner
Scientific Publications	7.1K	163.39	4219% higher	Bangladesh
Freedom of Expression Index	0.53	0.03	1927% higher	Bangladesh
Population Density	1.3K /km²	82.94 /km²	1490% higher	Bangladesh
Water Stress (%)	34.16%	3.3%	931% higher	Bangladesh
Liberal Democracy Index	0.12	0.01	673% higher	Bangladesh
GDP (Nominal)	$450,119,432,068.85	$74,068,349,523.81	508% higher	Bangladesh
Merchant Fleet Size	558	101	452% higher	Bangladesh
Irrigated Land	83.7K km²	17.1K km²	388% higher	Bangladesh
Electricity Generation	113.86 TWh	24.68 TWh	361% higher	Bangladesh
Total CO2 Emissions	124.19 Mt CO2e	31.36 Mt CO2e	296% higher	Bangladesh
Coal Electricity Share	21.51%	5.5%	289% higher	Bangladesh
Shipping Traffic	3.20M	846.4K	278% higher	Bangladesh
Agricultural Land (%)	72.31%	19.91%	263% higher	Bangladesh
Electric Generating Capacity	22.70M kW	7.42M kW	206% higher	Bangladesh
Population	174.37M	57.93M	201% higher	Bangladesh
Solar Electricity Share	1.5%	0.55%	175% higher	Bangladesh
Broadband Access (%)	8.0 per 100 people	3.0 per 100 people	167% higher	Bangladesh
Electoral Democracy Index	0.20	0.08	144% higher	Bangladesh
GNI Per Capita	$2,820	$1,210	133% higher	Bangladesh
Teen Birth Rate	73.18 per 1k	33.51 per 1k	118% higher	Bangladesh
Beer Consumption	0.01 L/person/yr	0.52 L/person/yr	99% lower	Myanmar
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	13.56 per 100k	6.9 per 100k	98% higher	Bangladesh
Capital Elevation	4.0 m	115 m	97% lower	Myanmar
Spirits Consumption	0.07 L/person/yr	1.2 L/person/yr	95% lower	Myanmar
Alcohol Consumption	0.09 L/adult/yr	1.9 L/adult/yr	95% lower	Myanmar
Meat Consumption per Person	4.0 kg/person/yr	58.25 kg/person/yr	93% lower	Myanmar
Forest Area	18.8K km²	276.7K km²	93% lower	Myanmar
Firms with Female Top Manager	3.6% of firms	41.13% of firms	91% lower	Myanmar
Air Passengers	6.63M	3.54M	87% higher	Bangladesh
Military Spending	0.94% of GDP	6.8% of GDP	86% lower	Myanmar
Firms Making Informal Payments	30.68% of firms	16.45% of firms	86% higher	Bangladesh
Vehicles per 1,000 People	17.91 per 1k people	122.96 per 1k people	85% lower	Myanmar
Women in Senior Management	7.2% of managers	40.97% of managers	82% lower	Myanmar
Highest Elevation	1.1K m	5.9K m	82% lower	Myanmar
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.00 per 100k people	0.02 per 100k people	81% lower	Myanmar
Land Area	130.0K km²	652.7K km²	80% lower	Myanmar
Airports	17	74	77% lower	Myanmar
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.34% of GDP	1.5% of GDP	77% lower	Myanmar
Coastline Length	580 km	1.9K km	70% lower	Myanmar
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	602.67 kWh/person	354.13 kWh/person	70% higher	Bangladesh
Forest Coverage (%)	14.49%	42.4%	66% lower	Myanmar
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.01 per 1M people	0.02 per 1M people	65% lower	Myanmar
Women's Political Empowerment	0.54	0.33	63% higher	Bangladesh
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$9,646.77	$5,997.47	61% higher	Bangladesh
Renewable Energy (%)	25%	62.9%	60% lower	Myanmar
Border Neighbors	2.0	5.0	60% lower	Myanmar
Unemployment Rate	4.7%	3.0%	54% higher	Bangladesh
Health Spending (% GDP)	2.4% of GDP	5.2% of GDP	54% lower	Myanmar
Railway Length	2.5K km	5.0K km	51% lower	Myanmar
Armed Forces Personnel	227.0K	463.0K	51% lower	Myanmar
Corruption Perceptions Index	24 pts	16 pts	50% higher	Bangladesh
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	50% higher	Bangladesh
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	3.0 sites	2.0 sites	50% higher	Bangladesh
Seafood Consumption per Person	26.27 kg/person/yr	45.85 kg/person/yr	43% lower	Myanmar
Electricity Carbon Intensity	696.13 gCO2/kWh	502.99 gCO2/kWh	38% higher	Bangladesh
Protected Land (%)	4.2%	6.6%	36% lower	Myanmar
Women in Parliament (%)	20.86%	15.29%	36% higher	Bangladesh
Land Border Length	4.4K km	6.5K km	32% lower	Myanmar
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	42.38 µg/m³	32.31 µg/m³	31% higher	Bangladesh
Obesity Rate	5.3%	7.5%	30% lower	Myanmar
Milk Consumption per Person	21.91 kg/person/yr	31.48 kg/person/yr	30% lower	Myanmar
Electricity Access (%)	99.5%	76.8%	30% higher	Bangladesh
Infant Mortality	24.4 per 1k births	34.1 per 1k births	28% lower	Myanmar
Mobile Money Accounts	20.77% of adults	29.03% of adults	28% lower	Myanmar
Smoking Rate	32.9%	44.4%	26% lower	Myanmar
Birth Rate	19.45 per 1k	15.44 per 1k	26% higher	Bangladesh
Energy Use (Per Capita)	297.12 kg oil eq/person	399.52 kg oil eq/person	26% lower	Myanmar
Tobacco Use Prevalence	32% of adults	42.5% of adults	25% lower	Myanmar
Firms Hit by Power Outages	71.35% of firms	94.91% of firms	25% lower	Myanmar
Internet Users (%)	45%	59%	24% lower	Myanmar
Hypertension Prevalence	28.8% of adults	37.4% of adults	23% lower	Myanmar
Food Waste per Person	124.54 kg/person/yr	162.51 kg/person/yr	23% lower	Myanmar
Firms Asked for Bribes	22.99% of firms	29.33% of firms	22% lower	Myanmar
Child Mortality	30.6 per 1k births	38.7 per 1k births	21% lower	Myanmar
Inflation Rate	10.5%	8.8%	19% higher	Bangladesh
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	0.90 per 1k	1.1 per 1k	18% lower	Myanmar
Adult Literacy Rate	79%	93.55%	16% lower	Myanmar
Death Rate	6.0 per 1k	7.2 per 1k	16% lower	Myanmar
Fertility Rate	2.3 children/woman	1.9 children/woman	15% higher	Bangladesh
Youth Population (%)	27.99%	24.3%	15% higher	Bangladesh
Digital Payments Used	33.95% of adults	39.91% of adults	15% lower	Myanmar
Dependency Ratio	52.64% of working-age pop.	46.21% of working-age pop.	14% higher	Bangladesh
Median Age	25.3 years	29.5 years	14% lower	Myanmar
Credit Card Ownership	1.7% of adults	2.0% of adults	14% lower	Myanmar
Human Development Index	0.69	0.61	12% higher	Bangladesh
Life Expectancy	74.7 years	66.9 years	12% higher	Bangladesh
Elderly Population (%)	6.5%	7.3%	11% lower	Myanmar
Political Corruption Index	0.78	0.86	9% lower	Myanmar
Sanitation Access (%)	67.62%	74.18%	9% lower	Myanmar
Water Withdrawal	35.87 B m³	33.23 B m³	8% higher	Bangladesh
CO2 Per Capita	0.62 t/person/yr	0.58 t/person/yr	8% higher	Bangladesh
Government Debt (% GDP)	33.3% of GDP	35.7% of GDP	7% lower	Myanmar
Urban Population (%)	32.68%	30.45%	7% higher	Bangladesh
Insufficient Physical Activity	20.31% of adults	21.62% of adults	6% lower	Myanmar
Average Weekly Work Hours	46.73 hrs/week	44.65 hrs/week	5% higher	Bangladesh
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	108 per 100 people	114 per 100 people	5% lower	Myanmar
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.72 per 1k	0.76 per 1k	5% lower	Myanmar
Health Spending Per Capita	$61.09	$57.97	5% higher	Bangladesh
Youth Unemployment Rate	9.4% of youth labor force	9.8% of youth labor force	4% lower	Myanmar
Informal Employment Share	84.04% of employed people	80.71% of employed people	4% higher	Bangladesh
Road Traffic Death Rate	18.6 per 100k	19.3 per 100k	4% lower	Myanmar
Suicide Rate	2.8 per 100k	2.9 per 100k	3% lower	Myanmar
Safe Drinking Water (%)	59.13%	59.72%	1% lower	Myanmar
Life Evaluation Score	4.3 pts	4.3 pts	1% higher	Bangladesh
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	10 days/yr	10 days/yr	equal	Bangladesh
Wind Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Bangladesh
GDP Growth Rate	4.2%	-0.97%	ranked higher	Bangladesh
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Bangladesh
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Bangladesh
Can Raise Emergency Money	95.65% of adults	95.33% of adults	equal	Bangladesh
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	0% of GDP	0.40% of GDP	ranked lower	Myanmar
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Bangladesh

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Analysis

Myanmar leads in 57 of 112 shared metrics, while Bangladesh leads in 55.

Bangladesh's Scientific Publications is 42.2x that of Myanmar (7.1K vs 163.39).

Bangladesh's Freedom of Expression Index is 19.3x that of Myanmar (0.53 vs 0.03).

Bangladesh's Population Density is 14.9x that of Myanmar (1.3K /km² vs 82.94 /km²).

Bangladesh's Water Stress (%) is 9.3x that of Myanmar (34.16% vs 3.3%).

Bangladesh's Liberal Democracy Index is 6.7x that of Myanmar (0.12 vs 0.01).

Key Comparisons

Scientific PublicationsBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

7.1K

Myanmar

163.39

Freedom of Expression IndexBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

0.53

Myanmar

0.03

Population DensityBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

1.3K /km²

Myanmar

82.94 /km²

Water Stress (%)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

34.16%

Myanmar

3.3%

Liberal Democracy IndexBangladesh leads

Bangladesh

0.12

Myanmar

0.01

GDP (Nominal)Bangladesh leads

Bangladesh

$450,119,432,068.85

Myanmar

$74,068,349,523.81

Scientific Publications

7.1K

163.39

Freedom of Expression Index

0.53

0.03

Population Density

1.3K /km²

82.94 /km²

Water Stress (%)

34.16%

3.3%

Liberal Democracy Index

0.12

0.01

GDP (Nominal)

$450,119,432,068.85

$74,068,349,523.81

Merchant Fleet Size

558

101

Irrigated Land

83.7K km²

17.1K km²

Electricity Generation

113.86 TWh

24.68 TWh

Total CO2 Emissions

124.19 Mt CO2e

31.36 Mt CO2e

Coal Electricity Share

21.51%

5.5%

Shipping Traffic

3.20M

846.4K

Agricultural Land (%)

72.31%

19.91%

Electric Generating Capacity

22.70M kW

7.42M kW

Population

174.37M

57.93M

Solar Electricity Share

1.5%

0.55%

Broadband Access (%)

8.0 per 100 people

3.0 per 100 people

Electoral Democracy Index

0.20

0.08

GNI Per Capita

$2,820

$1,210

Teen Birth Rate

73.18 per 1k

33.51 per 1k

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Scientific Publications

Freedom of Expression Index

Population Density

Water Stress (%)

Liberal Democracy Index

GDP (Nominal)

Merchant Fleet Size

Irrigated Land

Electricity Generation

Total CO2 Emissions

Coal Electricity Share

Shipping Traffic

Agricultural Land (%)

Electric Generating Capacity

Population

Solar Electricity Share

Broadband Access (%)

Electoral Democracy Index

GNI Per Capita

Teen Birth Rate

Beer Consumption

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Capital Elevation

Spirits Consumption

Alcohol Consumption

Meat Consumption per Person

Forest Area

Firms with Female Top Manager

Air Passengers

Military Spending

Firms Making Informal Payments

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Women in Senior Management

Highest Elevation

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Land Area

Airports

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Coastline Length

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Forest Coverage (%)

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

Women's Political Empowerment

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Renewable Energy (%)

Border Neighbors

Unemployment Rate

Health Spending (% GDP)

Railway Length

Armed Forces Personnel

Corruption Perceptions Index

Time Zones Count

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Seafood Consumption per Person

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Protected Land (%)

Women in Parliament (%)

Land Border Length

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Obesity Rate

Milk Consumption per Person

Electricity Access (%)

Infant Mortality

Mobile Money Accounts

Smoking Rate

Birth Rate

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Internet Users (%)

Hypertension Prevalence

Food Waste per Person