Country comparison: Bangladesh / Pakistan

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

General information

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Region:	South Asia	South Asia
Area:	147,630 km²	796,100 km²
National language:	Bengali	Urdu
Government form:	Parliamentary republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1971 AD	1947 AD
Capital:	Dhaka	Islamabad

Population

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Population:	169,356,000	231,402,000
Inhabitants/km²:	1,147.2	290.7
Life expectancy males:	Ø 70 years	Ø 64 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 69 years
Average age:	Ø 27.9 years	Ø 22.0 years
Birth rate:	18.05 ‰	27.97 ‰
Death rate:	5.82 ‰	7.06 ‰
Migrationrate:	-2.90 ‰	-0.96 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Political stability:	41	22
Civil rights:	25	26
Health:	42	29
Climate:	50	72
Cost of Living:	89	100
Popularity:	33	65

Economy

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Currency:	taka (1 BDT = 100 Poisha)	Pakistanian rupee (1 PKR =100 Paisa)
Unemployment rate:	5.1 %	6.3 %
Inflation rate:	5.55 %	9.50 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	39.02 %	25.78 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	33.40 %	33.90 %
Average income:	2,570 US$	1,470 US$
Corruption index:	75 (very bad)	73 (very bad)

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	416,265 M US$	2.46 M US$	348,263 M US$	1.51 M US$
Gross national product:	435,531 M US$	2.57 M US$	340,809 M US$	1.47 M US$
Exported goods:	49,386 M US$	0.29 M US$	35,566 M US$	0.15 M US$
Imported goods:	85,303 M US$	0.50 M US$	76,392 M US$	0.33 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	369,105 km	2.18 km	264,175 km	1.14 km
Railways:	2,460 km	0.01 km	11,881 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	468	0.0028	57	0.0002
Passenger airports:	8	0.0000	34	0.0001

Energy balance

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	BGD: total	per 1000 inh.	PAK: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	53.65 bn kWh	316,787.83 kWh	92.33 bn kWh	399,002.40 kWh
Energy production:	60.51 bn kWh	357,294.16 kWh	109.70 bn kWh	474,066.54 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	490.00 m kWh	2,117.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	90.74 m t	535.79 t	190.57 m t	823.54 t

Telecommunication

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
International dialing:	+880	+92
Internet domain:	.bd	.pk

	BGD total	BGD per 1000 inh.	PAK total	PAK per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	587,482	3	2,989,133	13
Mobile cellulars:	181,021,227	1069	188,711,452	816
Internet server:	71,164	0	365,813	2
Internet users:	42,000,350	248	57,850,529	250
Broadband Internet:	10,086,021	60	2,944,985	13

Healthcare system

Details for Bangladesh and Pakistan

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.79	0.63
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	0.53	0.98
Diabetes:	9.2 %	19.9 %
Malaria:	0.7 %	3.4 %
HIV:	0.01 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	2.21 ‰	2.64 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	95.0 %	94.0 %
Smokers:	34.7 %	20.2 %

Climate

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

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Daytime temperatures:	29.9 °C	30.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	21.0 °C	17.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	75 %	55 %
Rain days:	11.0	3.8
Sunshine hours per day:	5.6	8.0

Native languages

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Bengali:	97.7 %	n/a
Punjabi:	n/a	48.2 %
Pashto:	n/a	13.1 %
Sindhi:	n/a	11.8 %
Saraiki:	n/a	9.8 %
Urdu:	n/a	7.6 %
Balochi:	n/a	3.0 %
Hindko:	n/a	2.4 %
Brahui:	n/a	1.2 %
Chakma:	0.4 %	n/a
Marma:	0.2 %	n/a
Garo:	0.1 %	n/a
Khasi:	0.1 %	n/a
Santhali:	0.1 %	n/a
Tripuri:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.3 %	2.9 %

Religions

	Bangladesh	Pakistan
Islam:	89.5 %	95.0 %
Hinduism:	9.6 %	2.0 %
Christianity:	0.3 %	1.6 %
Buddhism:	0.5 %	n/a
other:	0.1 %	1.4 %

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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