New Zealand’s coastline is 26 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Bangladesh’s highest peak towers 1,030 m above New Zealand’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 37% of New Zealand

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Bangladesh has 33 times as many people as New Zealand

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 67 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 12 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 0.6 more children on average than in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in New Zealand are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Bangladesh hosts 17 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Bangladesh 1

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

Bangladesh’s economy is 73% larger than New Zealand’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 5.6 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · New Zealand: no data

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

New Zealand and Bangladesh are practically level

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 3.4× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 94 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Bangladesh is 6.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 5 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

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

New Zealand has 2.7 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 2.9 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 2.68 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 3,040 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 18 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 534 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 676 more hours a year than in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 6.1 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

New Zealand welcomed 307 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Bangladesh and New Zealand are practically level

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in New Zealand is 3.2 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in New Zealand have electricity, versus 100% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 99.5% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 43% longer than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 75 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 39% of New Zealand, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 10 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 9.3 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 60% more likely to be murdered in Bangladesh than in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Bangladesh are 3.2 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 14.7 °C warmer than New Zealand

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 31% more rain than New Zealand

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)