Sweden’s coastline is 5.5 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Sweden’s highest peak towers 1,040 m above Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Bangladesh has 17 times as many people as Sweden

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 52 times as densely populated as Sweden

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 15 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 2 times as many refugees per resident as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Bangladesh and Sweden are practically level

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 47% larger than Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 7.1 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

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

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 3.8% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

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

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

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

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 121 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

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

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

Sweden has 6.1 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 2.1 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 2.8 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

19% of adults in Sweden are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 20% in Sweden

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 2.94 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 2,980 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 15 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 779 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 952 more hours a year than in Sweden

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 6 years longer than in Bangladesh

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

Sweden welcomed 323 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 12 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (15 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Sweden are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Sweden is 2.9 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 3.4 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

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

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 5.8 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 11 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2 times as likely to be murdered in Bangladesh as in Sweden

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Bangladesh are 10 times as deadly as in Sweden

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 21.4 °C warmer than Sweden

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 2.6 times as much rain as Sweden

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)