Country comparison: Bangladesh / India

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Bangladesh and India. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Bangladesh	India
Region:	South Asia	South Asia
Area:	147,630 km²	3,287,259 km²
National language:	Bengali	Hindi
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1971 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	Dhaka	New Delhi

Population

Details for Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
Population:	169,356,000	1,407,564,000
Inhabitants/km²:	1,147.2	428.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 72 years
Average age:	Ø 27.9 years	Ø 28.7 years
Birth rate:	18.05 ‰	16.57 ‰
Death rate:	5.82 ‰	7.35 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.90 ‰	0.16 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Bangladesh	India
Political stability:	45	52
Civil rights:	25	46
Health:	42	36
Climate:	50	62
Cost of Living:	61	45
Popularity:	33	49

Economy

Details for Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
Currency:	taka (1 BDT = 100 Poisha)	Indian rupee (1 INR =100 Paise)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	7.7 %
Inflation rate:	5.55 %	5.13 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	39.02 %	28.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.40 %	49.70 %
Average income:	2,570 US$	2,150 US$
Corruption index:	75 (very bad)	60 (bad)

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	416,265 M US$	2.46 M US$	3,176,295 M US$	2.26 M US$
Gross national product:	435,531 M US$	2.57 M US$	3,023,424 M US$	2.15 M US$
Exported goods:	49,386 M US$	0.29 M US$	643,080 M US$	0.46 M US$
Imported goods:	85,303 M US$	0.50 M US$	717,119 M US$	0.51 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Bangladesh and India

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	369,105 km	2.18 km	6,371,847 km	4.53 km
Railways:	2,460 km	0.01 km	68,155 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	8,370 km	0.05 km	14,500 km	0.01 km
Harbours:	468	0.0028	1,801	0.0013
Passenger airports:	8	0.0000	82	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Bangladesh and India

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	53.65 bn kWh	316,787.83 kWh	1.137 tn kWh	807,778.64 kWh
Energy production:	60.51 bn kWh	357,294.16 kWh	1.386 tn kWh	984,680.03 kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.15 bn kWh	3,658.80 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.62 bn kWh	3,990.58 kWh
CO2 emissions:	90.74 m t	535.79 t	2.46 bn t	1,745.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
International dialing:	+880	+91
Internet domain:	.bd	.in

	BGD total	BGD per 1000 inh.	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	587,482	3	23,773,751	17
Mobile cellulars:	181,021,227	1069	1,154,046,584	820
Internet server:	71,164	0	6,746,000	5
Internet users:	42,000,350	248	605,252,452	430
Broadband Internet:	10,086,021	60	27,560,000	20

Healthcare system

Details for Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.79	0.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.78
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.4 %
Malaria:	0.7 %	5.3 %
Tuberculosis:	2.21 ‰	2.10 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	34.7 %	27.2 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
Daytime temperatures:	29.9 °C	31.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	21.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	66 %
Rain days:	11.0	7.9
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	6.2

Native languages

	Bangladesh	India
Bengali:	97.7 %	8.1 %
Hindi:	n/a	41.0 %
Telugu:	n/a	7.2 %
Marathi:	n/a	7.0 %
Tamil:	n/a	5.9 %
Urdu:	n/a	5.0 %
Gujarati:	n/a	4.5 %
Kannada:	n/a	3.7 %
Oriya:	n/a	3.2 %
Malayalam:	n/a	3.2 %
Punjabi:	n/a	2.8 %
Assamese:	n/a	1.3 %
Maithili:	n/a	1.2 %
Chakma:	0.4 %	n/a
Marma:	0.2 %	n/a
Tripuri:	0.1 %	n/a
Santhali:	0.1 %	n/a
Khasi:	0.1 %	n/a
Garo:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.3 %	5.9 %

Religions

	Bangladesh	India
Islam:	89.5 %	13.0 %
Hinduism:	9.6 %	79.8 %
Christianity:	0.3 %	2.3 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.7 %
Buddhism:	0.5 %	0.7 %
Jainism:	n/a	0.4 %
Bahaism:	n/a	0.2 %
other:	0.1 %	1.9 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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