Country comparison Bangladesh : India

General information

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

Population

	Bangladesh	India
Population:	164,689,000	1,380,004,000
Inhabitants/km²:	1,115.6	419.8
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 75 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 27.9 years	Ø 28.7 years
Birthrate:	17.55 ‰	17.44 ‰
Deathrate:	5.52 ‰	7.30 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.93 ‰	-0.04 ‰

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:	43	45
Civil rights:	26	46
Health:	44	35
Climate:	50	67
Cost of Living:	61	44
Popularity:	34	58

Economy

	Bangladesh	India
Currency:	Taka (1 BDT = 100 Poisha)	Indian Rupee (1 INR =100 Paise)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	6.0 %
Inflation rate:	5.55 %	6.62 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	39.02 %	28.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.40 %	49.70 %
Average income:	2,030 US$	1,920 US$
Corruption index:	26 (very bad)	40 (bad)

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	323,057 M US$	1.96 M US$	2,660,245 M US$	1.93 M US$
Gross national product:	333,828 M US$	2.03 M US$	2,651,666 M US$	1.92 M US$
Exported goods:	49,386 M US$	0.30 M US$	484,691 M US$	0.35 M US$
Imported goods:	85,303 M US$	0.52 M US$	493,033 M US$	0.36 M US$

Infrastructure

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	369,105 km	2.24 km	4,699,024 km	3.41 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	0.003	1,801	0.001
Airports:	18	0.000	346	0.000

Energy balance

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	IND: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	53.65 bn kWh	325,764.78 kWh	1,137.00 bn kWh	823,910.43 kWh
Energy production:	60.51 bn kWh	367,418.95 kWh	1,386.00 bn kWh	1.00 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.15 bn kWh	3,731.87 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	5.62 bn kWh	4,070.28 kWh
CO2 emissions:	82.76 m t	502.52 t	2.43 bn t	1,764.14 t

Telecommunication

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

	BGD total	BGD per 1000 inh.	IND total	IND per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	1,450,321	9	20,052,162	15
Mobile cellulars:	170,136,762	1033	1,153,709,832	836
Internet server:	71,164	0	6,746,000	5
Internet users:	21,244,930	129	565,801,798	410
Broadband Internet:	10,052,819	61	22,950,000	17

Healthcare system

	Bangladesh	India
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.79	0.53
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.78
Diabetes:	9.2 %	10.4 %
Malaria:	0.7 %	5.3 %
Tuberculosis:	2.2 %	1.9 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	84.0 %
Smokers:	34.7 %	27.2 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Bangladesh and India

	Bangladesh	India
Daytime temperatures:	29.8 °C	30.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.9 °C	19.8 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	66 %
Rain days:	11.0	7.4
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	6.4

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 %
Malayalam:	n/a	3.2 %
Oriya:	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 %