Bangladesh’s coastline is 8.7 times as long as Belgium’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition)

Bangladesh’s highest peak towers 366 m above Belgium’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 44% of Belgium

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Belgium: 44.4% (2024)

Bangladesh has 15 times as many people as Belgium

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Belgium: 11.9 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 3.4 times as densely populated as Belgium

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Belgium: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 16 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Belgium: 41.4 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 0.7 more children on average than in Belgium

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Belgium: 21% (2025)

Belgium hosts 2.3 times as many refugees per resident as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Belgium: 8.4 (2026)

Belgium has 3 official languages, Bangladesh 1

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · Belgium: 3 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 59% larger than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Belgium: $725 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 7.4 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Bangladesh than in Belgium (Gini 4.1 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Belgium: 26.8 (2023)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Belgium: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 5.9% in Belgium, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Belgium: 5.9% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Belgium: 2% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Belgium: 23% (2024)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 3.2× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Belgium: 81% (2025)

Belgium spends 111 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Belgium: $5,931 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 7.9 times as likely to die before turning one as in Belgium

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Belgium: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024)

Belgium has 5 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Belgium has 5.9 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Belgium is 3.4 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023)

23% of adults in Belgium are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Belgium: 22.9% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 24% in Belgium

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Belgium: 23.5% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 2.61 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Belgium: 6.93 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 3,275 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023)

Belgium has 13 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Belgium: 60 kg (2023)

Belgium has 1,334 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 790 more hours a year than in Belgium

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 5.9 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · Belgium: 12.7 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 415 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Belgium: 0.81 (2024)

Belgium has 13 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (16 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Belgium: 16 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Belgium: 177 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Belgium are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · Belgium: 96% (2024)

Home internet in Belgium is 3 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Belgium have electricity, versus 100% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 99.5% (2024) · Belgium: 100% (2024)

88% of people in Belgium live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Belgium: 88% (2025)

Bangladesh has 108 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Belgium: 104 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 26% longer than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Belgium: 3,612 km (2021)

Airlines from Belgium fly 25 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Belgium: 0.95 (2023)

Forest covers 22% of Belgium, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Belgium: 22% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 12 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Belgium: 7.3 t (2024)

39% of Belgium’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Belgium: 38.9% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 7 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.2 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in Belgium

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021)

Roads in Bangladesh are 5.1 times as deadly as in Belgium

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 14.7 °C warmer than Belgium

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 2.3 times as much rain as Belgium

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg)