Greece’s coastline is 24 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Greece: 13,676 km (2026 edition)

Greece’s highest peak towers 1,857 m above Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Greece: 2,917 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 39% of Greece

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Greece: 38.9% (2024)

Bangladesh has 17 times as many people as Greece

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Greece: 10.4 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 17 times as densely populated as Greece

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Greece: 81 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Greece is 20 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Greece: 45.7 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 0.9 more children on average than in Greece

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Greece: 1.24 children per woman (2024)

24% of people in Greece are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Greece: 24.4% (2025)

Greece hosts 93% more refugees per resident than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Greece: 12.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Greece has produced 1.0 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Bangladesh and Greece are practically level

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · Greece: 1 (2026)

Bangladesh’s economy is 63% larger than Greece’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Greece: $281 billion (2025)

Greece produces 4.5 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Greece: Int$45,264 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Greece than in Bangladesh (Gini 2.5 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Greece: 33.4 (2023)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.6% in Greece

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Greece: 0.6% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.5% in Greece, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Greece: 8.5% (2025)

Greece spends 3.0% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Greece: 3% (2025)

Greece’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Greece: 27.4% (2024)

Greece’s price level (US = 100) is 2.3× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Greece: 60% (2025)

Greece spends 37 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Greece: $1,963 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 7.6 times as likely to die before turning one as in Greece

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Greece: 3.2 per 1,000 (2024)

Greece has 9.1 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Greece: 6.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Greece has 4.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Greece: 4.3 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Bangladesh is 15% higher than in Greece

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

34% of adults in Greece are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Greece: 33.7% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 30% in Greece

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Greece: 30.2% (2024)

People in Greece rate their lives 1.38 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Greece: 5.70 (2025)

Adults in Greece drink 2,946 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Greece: 8.6 litres (2023)

Greece has 18 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Greece: 82 kg (2023)

Greece has 794 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Greece: 3,382 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 490 more hours a year than in Greece

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Greece: 1,893 hours (2023)

Adults in Greece went to school 4.8 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · Greece: 11.6 years (2023)

Greece welcomed 1,362 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Greece: 2.67 (2022)

Greece has 18 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (21 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Greece: 21 (2026)

Greece has won 129 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Greece: 129 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Greece are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · Greece: 86% (2024)

Home internet in Greece is 2.2 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Greece: 186 Mbps (2026)

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

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

79% of people in Greece live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Greece: 79% (2025)

Greece has 114 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Greece: 114 (2024)

Bangladesh’s railway network is 23% longer than Greece’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Greece: 2,339 km (2021)

Airlines from Greece fly 49 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Greece: 1.83 (2023)

Forest covers 37% of Greece, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Greece: 36.9% (2024)

The average person in Greece emits 8.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Greece: 5.3 t (2024)

50% of Greece’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Greece: 49.7% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 4.3 times as much fine dust as in Greece

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Greece: 15.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.8 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in Greece

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Greece: 0.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Bangladesh are 3.2 times as deadly as in Greece

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Greece: 10.8 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 10.0 °C warmer than Greece

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 15.7°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 2.6 times as much rain as Greece

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Greece: 800 mm (2016–2025 avg)