Japan’s coastline is 51 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Japan: 29,751 km (2026 edition)

Japan’s highest peak towers 2,716 m above Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Japan: 3,776 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 13% of Japan

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Japan: 12.6% (2024)

Bangladesh has 42% more people than Japan

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Japan: 123 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 4 times as densely populated as Japan

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Japan: 338 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Japan is 24 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Japan: 49 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 1.0 more children on average than in Japan

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Japan: 1.15 children per woman (2024)

30% of people in Japan are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Japan: 30% (2025)

Bangladesh hosts 19 times as many refugees per resident as Japan

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Japan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Japan has produced 2.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Japan: 2.5 (2026)

Bangladesh and Japan are practically level

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · Japan: 1 (2026)

Japan’s economy is 9.7 times the size of Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Japan: $4.44 trillion (2025)

Japan produces 5.5 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Japan: Int$55,422 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Japan than in Bangladesh (Gini 1.4 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Japan: 32.3 (2020)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.2% in Japan

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Japan: 1.2% (2020)

Unemployment is 3.8% in Bangladesh, versus 2.5% in Japan

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Japan: 2.5% (2025)

Japan spends 1.4% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Japan: 1.4% (2025)

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Japan: no data

Japan’s price level (US = 100) is 2.5× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Japan: 65% (2025)

Japan spends 68 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Japan: $3,638 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 14 times as likely to die before turning one as in Japan

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Japan: 1.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Japan has 3.7 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Japan: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Japan has 14 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Japan: 12.6 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Japan is 3.2 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 14.4 per 100k (2023)

5.7% of adults in Bangladesh are obese, versus 5.2% in Japan

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Japan: 5.2% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 18% in Japan

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Japan: 17.5% (2024)

People in Japan rate their lives 1.81 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Japan: 6.13 (2025)

Adults in Japan drink 2,149 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Japan: 6.3 litres (2023)

Japan has 13 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Japan: 59.9 kg (2022)

Japan has 82 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Japan: 2,670 kcal (2022)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 729 more hours a year than in Japan

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Japan: 1,654 hours (2023)

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

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

Japan welcomed 152 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Japan: 0.3 (2024)

Japan has 24 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (27 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Japan: 27 (2026)

Japan has won 642 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Japan: 642 (2026 edition)

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

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

Home internet in Japan is 3.7 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Japan: 322 Mbps (2026)

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

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

92% of people in Japan live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Japan: 92% (2025)

Japan has 178 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Japan: 178 (2023)

Japan’s railway network is 7 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Japan: 20,087 km (2011)

Airlines from Japan fly 26 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Japan: 0.98 (2023)

Forest covers 68% of Japan, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Japan: 68.3% (2024)

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

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Japan: 7.8 t (2024)

24% of Japan’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Japan: 23.6% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 6.2 times as much fine dust as in Japan

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Japan: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 10 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in Japan

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Japan: 0.2 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Bangladesh are 9.1 times as deadly as in Japan

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 3.8 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 13.0 °C warmer than Japan

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 12.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 15% more rain than Japan

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 1,824 mm (2016–2025 avg)