Norway’s coastline is 43 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Norway: 25,148 km (2026 edition)

Norway’s highest peak towers 1,409 m above Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Norway: 2,469 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 2.7% of Norway

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Norway: 2.7% (2024)

Bangladesh has 31 times as many people as Norway

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Norway: 5.61 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 88 times as densely populated as Norway

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Norway: 15 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Norway is 14 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Norway: 39.5 years (2023)

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

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Norway: 1.45 children per woman (2024)

19% of people in Norway are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Norway: 19.1% (2025)

Norway hosts 3.3 times as many refugees per resident as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Norway: 22.1 per 1,000 (2025)

Norway has produced 23.2 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Norway: 23.2 (2026)

Norway has 3 official languages, Bangladesh 1

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

Norway’s economy is 16% larger than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Norway: $531 billion (2025)

Norway produces 10 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Norway: Int$104,044 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Bangladesh than in Norway (Gini 4.4 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Norway: 26.5 (2023)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.2% in Norway

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Norway: 0.2% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.6% in Norway, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Norway: 4.6% (2025)

Norway spends 3.3% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Norway: 3.3% (2025)

Norway’s central government collects 25% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Norway: 24.5% (2024)

Norway’s price level (US = 100) is 3.6× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Norway: 91% (2025)

Norway spends 155 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Norway: $8,296 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 12 times as likely to die before turning one as in Norway

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · Norway: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Norway has 6.9 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 5 per 1,000 (2023)

Norway has 3.6 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Norway: 3.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Norway is 2.6 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

21% of adults in Norway are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Norway: 20.7% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 13% in Norway

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Norway: 12.9% (2024)

People in Norway rate their lives 2.92 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Norway: 7.24 (2025)

Adults in Norway drink 2,388 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Norway: 7 litres (2023)

Norway has 16 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Norway: 70.4 kg (2023)

Norway has 888 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Norway: 3,476 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 971 more hours a year than in Norway

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Norway: 1,412 hours (2023)

Adults in Norway went to school 6.3 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · Norway: 13.1 years (2023)

Norway welcomed 466 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Norway: 0.91 (2022)

Norway has 5 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (8 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Norway: 8 (2026)

Norway has won 616 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Norway: 616 (2026 edition)

99% of people in Norway are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · Norway: 99% (2024)

Home internet in Norway is 2.7 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Norway: 228 Mbps (2026)

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

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

84% of people in Norway live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Norway: 84% (2025)

Norway has 109 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Norway: 109 (2024)

Norway’s railway network is 35% longer than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Norway: 3,885 km (2021)

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Norway: no data

Forest covers 33% of Norway, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Norway: 33.2% (2024)

The average person in Norway emits 11 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Norway: 6.7 t (2024)

99% of Norway’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Norway: 99% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 9.7 times as much fine dust as in Norway

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Norway: 6.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 3.2 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in Norway

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Norway: 0.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Bangladesh are 12 times as deadly as in Norway

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Norway: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 24.2 °C warmer than Norway

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1.6°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 66% more rain than Norway

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Norway: 1,259 mm (2016–2025 avg)