The Maldives’ coastline is 11% longer than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Maldives: 644 km (2026 edition)

Bangladesh’s highest peak towers 1,055 m above the Maldives’

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Maldives: 5 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 20% of the Maldives

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Maldives: 19.8% (2024)

Bangladesh has 332 times as many people as the Maldives

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Maldives: 529,676 (2025)

The Maldives is 32% more densely populated than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Maldives: 1,777 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the Maldives is 5.8 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Maldives: 31.1 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 0.6 more children on average than in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Maldives: 1.56 children per woman (2024)

6.7% of people in Bangladesh are 65 or older, versus 5.0% in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Maldives: 5% (2025)

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Maldives: no data

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Maldives: no data

Bangladesh and the Maldives are practically level

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · Maldives: 1 (2026)

Bangladesh’s economy is 59 times the size of the Maldives’

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Maldives: $7.74 billion (2025)

The Maldives produces 2.8 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Maldives: Int$28,555 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Bangladesh than in the Maldives (Gini 1.6 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Maldives: 29.3 (2019)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 0% in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Maldives: 0% (2019)

Unemployment is 4.5% in the Maldives, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Maldives: 4.5% (2025)

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Maldives: no data

The Maldives’ central government collects 19% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Maldives: 19.5% (2021)

The Maldives’ price level (US = 100) is 2× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Maldives: 51% (2025)

The Maldives spends 22 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Maldives: $1,159 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 5.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Maldives: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

The Maldives has 3.1 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Maldives: 2.2 per 1,000 (2019)

The Maldives has 5 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Maldives: 4.6 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in Bangladesh is 36% higher than in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Maldives: 3.3 per 100k (2023)

18% of adults in the Maldives are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Maldives: 18.1% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 26% in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Maldives: 25.5% (2024)

People in the Maldives rate their lives 0.88 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Maldives: 5.20 (2020)

Adults in the Maldives drink 845 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Maldives: 2.5 litres (2023)

The Maldives has 6.6 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Maldives: 29.6 kg (2023)

The Maldives has 84 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Maldives: 2,671 kcal (2023)

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Maldives: no data

Adults in the Maldives went to school 0.62 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · Maldives: 7.4 years (2023)

The Maldives welcomed 1,632 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Maldives: 3.2 (2022)

Bangladesh has 3 more World Heritage sites than the Maldives (3 against 0)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Maldives: 0 (2026)

Bangladesh and the Maldives are practically level

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Maldives: 0 (2026 edition)

85% of people in the Maldives are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · Maldives: 85% (2024)

Home internet in Bangladesh is 89% faster than in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Maldives: 45 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in the Maldives have electricity, versus 100% in Bangladesh

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

43% of people in the Maldives live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Maldives: 43% (2025)

The Maldives has 148 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Maldives: 148 (2024)

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Maldives: no data

Airlines from the Maldives fly 71 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Maldives: 2.67 (2023)

Forest covers 14% of Bangladesh, but only 12% of the Maldives

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Maldives: 12.5% (2024)

The average person in the Maldives emits 7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Maldives: 4.4 t (2024)

7.1% of the Maldives’ electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Maldives: 7.1% (2024)

The air in Bangladesh carries 6.1 times as much fine dust as in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Maldives: 10.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.8 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Maldives: 0.6 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Bangladesh are 29 times as deadly as in the Maldives

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Maldives: 1.2 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Maldives: no data

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Maldives: no data