Bangladesh
People's Republic of Bangladesh
- Region
- Asia · Southern Asia
- Capital
- Dhaka
- Population
- 175,686,899 (2025)
- Government
- parliamentary republic
- Currency
- Bangladeshi taka (BDT)
- Official languages
- Bengali
- Spoken languages
- Bangla 98.8% (official, also known as Bengali), other 1.2% (2011 est.)
- Written scripts
- Bengali
- Area
- 147,570 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, OIC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Myanmar , India
Political stability
41 / 100
Economic stability
31 / 100
Population stability
62 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- garments, footwear, fabric, textiles, trunks and cases (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, cotton fabric, natural gas, cotton, fabric (2023)
- Natural resources
- natural gas, arable land, timber, coal
- Primary route
- Indian Ocean services to Asia, the Gulf, and Europe via Suez
- Secondary route
- Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea feeder networks
The xin.bz view
- Bangladesh enters El Niño with roughly 2.35M t of government foodgrain stocks, including almost 2M t of rice — a strong public buffer for a large, import-sensitive population.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Tightening the World's Food Valves
India's 90.7M t grain buffer, early Philippine rice buying, Indonesia's B50 palm-oil pull, and Nepal's flood — governments now decide how much food this region releases to the world.
El Niño Is Raising the Middle East's Food and Water Needs — While War Is Rewriting How Supply Gets In and Energy Gets Out
Gulf desalination and grain buying, Egypt's Nile and Suez loops, Hormuz fertilizer constraints, and $280B+ in reconstruction demand — the Middle East sits on both sides of the El Niño shock.
Future Insight ·
The Holiday Inventory Has Already Moved
Future Insights — the 2026 holiday season arrived through warehouses months before shoppers: purchase orders placed by May, inventory handed downstream in August, $1 trillion in U.S. sales on flat units, and factory labor tracing the new production map from India to Vietnam.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.