The United States’ coastline is 34 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 580 km (2026 edition) · United States: 19,924 km (2026 edition)

The United States’ highest peak towers 5,130 m above Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 1,060 m (2026 edition) · United States: 6,190 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 72% of Bangladesh, versus 46% of the United States

Bangladesh: 72.2% (2024) · United States: 46.1% (2024)

The United States has 95% more people than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 176 million (2025) · United States: 342 million (2025)

Bangladesh is 36 times as densely populated as the United States

Bangladesh: 1,350 per km² (2025) · United States: 37 per km² (2025)

The typical person in the United States is 13 years older than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 25.3 years (2023) · United States: 38 years (2023)

Women in Bangladesh have 0.5 more children on average than in the United States

Bangladesh: 2.14 children per woman (2024) · United States: 1.63 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in the United States are 65 or older, versus 6.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.7% (2025) · United States: 18.4% (2025)

Bangladesh hosts 5 times as many refugees per resident as the United States

Bangladesh: 6.7 per 1,000 (2025) · United States: 1.3 per 1,000 (2025)

The United States has produced 8.7 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Bangladesh 0.1

Bangladesh: 0.1 (2026) · United States: 8.7 (2026)

Bangladesh and the United States are practically level

Bangladesh: 1 (2026) · United States: 1 (2026)

The United States’ economy is 67 times the size of Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: $456 billion (2025) · United States: $30.8 trillion (2025)

The United States produces 8.9 times as much per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: Int$10,154 (2025) · United States: Int$90,027 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in the United States than in Bangladesh (Gini 10.9 points higher)

Bangladesh: 30.9 (2022) · United States: 41.8 (2024)

5.9% of people in Bangladesh live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.1% in the United States

Bangladesh: 5.9% (2022) · United States: 1.1% (2024)

The United States and Bangladesh are practically level

Bangladesh: 3.8% (2025) · United States: 4.2% (2025)

The United States spends 3.1% of its GDP on the military, Bangladesh 0.8%

Bangladesh: 0.8% (2025) · United States: 3.1% (2025)

The United States’ central government collects 11% of GDP in tax, Bangladesh’s 7.6%

Bangladesh: 7.6% (2021) · United States: 10.8% (2024)

The United States’ price level (US = 100) is 3.9× Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 26% (2025) · United States: 100% (2025)

The United States spends 252 times as much on health per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: $53 (2023) · United States: $13,473 (2023)

A baby in Bangladesh is 4.4 times as likely to die before turning one as in the United States

Bangladesh: 24.4 per 1,000 (2024) · United States: 5.5 per 1,000 (2024)

The United States has 5.1 times as many doctors per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.7 per 1,000 (2023) · United States: 3.7 per 1,000 (2022)

The United States has 2.9 times as many hospital beds per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.9 per 1,000 (2023) · United States: 2.7 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in the United States is 3 times that in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 per 100k (2023) · United States: 13.3 per 100k (2023)

42% of adults in the United States are obese, versus 5.7% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 5.7% (2024) · United States: 41.8% (2024)

32% of adults in Bangladesh smoke, versus 16% in the United States

Bangladesh: 32% (2024) · United States: 15.8% (2024)

People in the United States rate their lives 2.50 points higher than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.32 (2025) · United States: 6.82 (2025)

Adults in the United States drink 3,281 times as much alcohol as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.0029 litres (2023) · United States: 9.6 litres (2023)

The United States has 27 times as much meat per person as Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 4.5 kg (2023) · United States: 122.1 kg (2023)

The United States has 1,360 kcal more food per person per day than Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2,588 kcal (2023) · United States: 3,947 kcal (2023)

Workers in Bangladesh put in 594 more hours a year than in the United States

Bangladesh: 2,383 hours (2023) · United States: 1,789 hours (2023)

Adults in the United States went to school 7.1 years longer than in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 6.8 years (2023) · United States: 13.9 years (2023)

The United States welcomed 109 times as many tourists per resident as Bangladesh (2019)

Bangladesh: 0.002 (2019) · United States: 0.21 (2024)

The United States has 24 more World Heritage sites than Bangladesh (27 against 3)

Bangladesh: 3 (2026) · United States: 27 (2026)

The United States has won 3,137 Olympic medals, Bangladesh none

Bangladesh: 0 (2026 edition) · United States: 3,137 (2026 edition)

95% of people in the United States are online, versus 53% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 53% (2024) · United States: 95% (2024)

Home internet in the United States is 4.7 times as fast as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 86 Mbps (2026) · United States: 401 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in the United States have electricity, versus 100% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 99.5% (2024) · United States: 100% (2024)

80% of people in the United States live in cities, versus 33% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 33% (2025) · United States: 80% (2025)

The United States has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Bangladesh 108

Bangladesh: 108 (2024) · United States: 113 (2024)

The United States’ railway network is 52 times as long as Bangladesh’s

Bangladesh: 2,877 km (2019) · United States: 148,553 km (2021)

Airlines from the United States fly 73 times as many passengers per resident as those from Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.04 (2023) · United States: 2.75 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of the United States, but only 14% of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 14.4% (2024) · United States: 33.8% (2024)

The average person in the United States emits 23 times as much CO₂ as someone in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 0.6 t (2024) · United States: 14.2 t (2024)

26% of the United States’ electricity is renewable, versus 2.1% in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.1% (2025) · United States: 25.6% (2025)

The air in Bangladesh carries 8.7 times as much fine dust as in the United States

Bangladesh: 65 µg/m³ (2024) · United States: 7.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 2.5 times as likely to be murdered in the United States as in Bangladesh

Bangladesh: 2.3 per 100k (2018) · United States: 5.8 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Bangladesh are 31% deadlier than in the United States

Bangladesh: 34.5 per 100k (2023) · United States: 26.3 per 100k (2023)

Bangladesh is on average 15.5 °C warmer than the United States

Bangladesh: 25.8°C (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 10.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Bangladesh gets 2.5 times as much rain as the United States

Bangladesh: 2,096 mm (2016–2025 avg) · United States: 849 mm (2016–2025 avg)