BangladeshandIndia

26 March 1971 · c. 320 BCE

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

Bangladesh

26 March 1971 — Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares the independence of Bangladesh

Dossier →Chronicle →

India

c. 320 BCE — Chandragupta Maurya founds the Maurya Empire

Dossier →Chronicle →

Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
4
Data through
2026-08-14

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Economy

BGDIND
  • GDP
    $456 B2025$3.96 T2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP per capita
    $2,5972025$2,7022025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • GDP growth
    3.5%20257.6%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Inflation
    8.8%20252.4%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Trade openness
    28.0%202546.3%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Society

BGDIND
  • Population
    176 m20251.46 bn2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Life expectancy
    74.9 yrs202472.2 yrs2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Urban population
    33.2%202535.7%2025
    Observed 2025 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Fertility rate
    2.120242.02024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Governance

BGDIND

Health

BGDIND
  • Health spending
    2.2%20233.3%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Physicians
    0.7220230.722020
    Observed 2023 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Under-5 mortality
    30.5202426.62024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Measles immunisation
    96.0%202497.0%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Safe drinking water
    59.1%202476.4%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded

Education

BGDIND

Technology

BGDIND
  • Internet users
    53.4%202470.0%2025
    Observed 2024 / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mobile subscriptions
    1082024792024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • High-tech exports
    0.5%201818.6%2024
    Observed 2018 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • R&D spending
    —0.6%2020
    Observed — / 2020 · figures compared, never graded
  • Researchers (per million)
    —2592020
    Observed — / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Geography

BGDIND
  • Land area
    129,980 km²20232,973,190 km²2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest area
    14.5%202324.5%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • Agricultural land
    72.3%202360.1%2023
    Observed 2023 / 2023 · figures compared, never graded
  • CO₂ per capita (t)
    0.720242.22024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Renewable energy
    25.0%202134.9%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded

Resources

BGDIND
  • Resource rents
    0.6%20213.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Oil rents
    0.0%20210.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Mineral rents
    0.0%20211.3%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Forest rents
    0.1%20210.2%2021
    Observed 2021 / 2021 · figures compared, never graded
  • Electricity access
    99.5%202499.9%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Copper (mined)
    —23.0 kt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Iron ore
    —310 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Rare earths
    —2,900 t2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Bauxite
    —25 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Zinc (mined)
    —870 kt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded
  • Phosphate rock
    —1.5 Mt2025
    Observed — / 2025 · figures compared, never graded

Military

BGDIND
  • Military burden
    0.9%20242.3%2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Defense spending
    $4.0 B2024$86 B2024
    Observed 2024 / 2024 · figures compared, never graded
  • Armed forces
    227,00020203.1 m2020
    Observed 2020 / 2020 · figures compared, never graded

Entangled histories

4 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 23 Jun 1757

    Battle of Plassey

    Robert Clive's East India Company forces defeat Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah after the betrayal of Mir Jafar, beginning British political control of Bengal and, in time, of India.

    Colonisation · from the Bangladesh chronicle · British Conquest and Colonial Bengal · REFS 2 — Battle of Plassey, Sirāj al-Dawlah

  2. 1947

    Partition creates East Pakistan

    The partition of British India makes Muslim-majority eastern Bengal into East Pakistan, a wing of the new state separated from its western half by a thousand miles of India.

    Politics & Power · from the Bangladesh chronicle · Partition, East Pakistan and the Language Movement · REFS 1 — History of Bangladesh

  3. 16 Dec 1971

    Victory and the birth of Bangladesh

    After a nine-month war in which possibly a million Bengalis were killed and ten million fled to India, Indian forces intervene and the Pakistani army surrenders at Dhaka, founding the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

    Independence · from the Bangladesh chronicle · Liberation War and Modern Bangladesh · REFS 1 — Bangladesh Liberation War

  4. 5 Aug 2024

    The 2024 uprising and Hasina's fall

    A student-led mass uprising over a civil-service job-quota system forces Sheikh Hasina to resign after fifteen years and flee to India; the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is appointed to head an interim government.

    Politics & Power · from the Bangladesh chronicle · Liberation War and Modern Bangladesh · REFS 1 — Sheikh Hasina Wazed