Country comparison: Bangladesh / Nepal

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

General information

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Region:	South Asia	South Asia
Area:	147,630 km²	147,180 km²
National language:	Bengali	Nepali
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1971 AD	1769 AD
Capital:	Dhaka	Kathmandu

Population

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Population:	169,356,000	30,035,000
Inhabitants/km²:	1,147.2	204.1
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 71 years
Average age:	Ø 27.9 years	Ø 25.3 years
Birth rate:	18.05 ‰	20.64 ‰
Death rate:	5.82 ‰	7.21 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.90 ‰	-4.21 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Political stability:	46	54
Civil rights:	25	36
Health:	42	37
Climate:	50	57
Cost of Living:	61	56
Popularity:	33	28

Economy

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Currency:	taka (1 BDT = 100 Poisha)	Nepalese rupee (1 NPR =2 Mohur = 100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	5.2 %	5.1 %
Inflation rate:	5.55 %	4.09 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	39.02 %	28.06 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.40 %	41.80 %
Average income:	2,570 US$	1,220 US$
Corruption index:	75 (very bad)	66 (bad)

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	416,265 M US$	2.46 M US$	36,289 M US$	1.21 M US$
Gross national product:	435,531 M US$	2.57 M US$	36,591 M US$	1.22 M US$
Exported goods:	49,386 M US$	0.29 M US$	2,520 M US$	0.08 M US$
Imported goods:	85,303 M US$	0.50 M US$	16,993 M US$	0.57 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	369,105 km	2.18 km	27,990 km	0.93 km
Railways:	2,460 km	0.01 km	59 km	0.00 km
Passenger airports:	8	0.0000	22	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	NPL: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	53.65 bn kWh	316,787.83 kWh	4.98 bn kWh	165,906.50 kWh
Energy production:	60.51 bn kWh	357,294.16 kWh	4.24 bn kWh	141,301.87 kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	2.69 m kWh	89.56 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	2.18 bn kWh	72,415.54 kWh
CO2 emissions:	90.74 m t	535.79 t	13.45 m t	447.81 t

Telecommunication

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	Bangladesh	Nepal
International dialing:	+880	+977
Internet domain:	.bd	.np

	BGD total	BGD per 1000 inh.	NPL total	NPL per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	587,482	3	726,000	24
Mobile cellulars:	181,021,227	1069	38,213,000	1272
Internet server:	71,164	0	41,256	1
Internet users:	42,000,350	248	11,323,191	377
Broadband Internet:	10,086,021	60	1,270,000	42

Healthcare system

Details for Bangladesh and Nepal

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.79	0.30
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.65
Diabetes:	9.2 %	7.2 %
Malaria:	0.7 %	0.4 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.04 %
Tuberculosis:	2.21 ‰	2.29 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	91.0 %
Smokers:	34.7 %	30.4 %

Climate

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

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Daytime temperatures:	29.9 °C	24.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	13.6 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	78 %
Rain days:	11.0	9.5
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	6.0

Native languages

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Bengali:	97.7 %	n/a
Nepali:	n/a	44.6 %
Maithili:	n/a	11.7 %
Bhojpuri:	n/a	6.0 %
Tamang:	n/a	5.1 %
Tharu:	n/a	5.1 %
Newari:	n/a	3.2 %
Magar:	n/a	3.0 %
Bajjika:	n/a	3.0 %
Urdu:	n/a	2.6 %
Avadhi:	n/a	1.9 %
Limbu:	n/a	1.3 %
Gurung:	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 %	11.3 %

Religions

	Bangladesh	Nepal
Islam:	89.5 %	4.4 %
Hinduism:	9.6 %	81.3 %
Buddhism:	0.5 %	9.0 %
Kirant:	n/a	3.1 %
Christianity:	0.3 %	1.4 %
other:	0.1 %	0.8 %

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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