- ISO 3166
BD- Primary locale
bn-BD- Currency
- BDT · Bangladeshi Taka
- Region
- APAC · SA
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has 168.7M people, and 90.1M of them are online. Bangla is the most widely spoken language at 98%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Bangla is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to bn-BD.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
90.1M
0%world median 81%100%
53% of 168.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$2,597
Higher than 21% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
43%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
7
Bangla 98% · English 18% · Rangpuri 7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
506
Very lowVery high
Moderate proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
58%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Bangladesh
share of 168.7M people
- Banglaofficial98%165.3M
- English18%30.4M
- Rangpuri7%11M
- Sylheti5%8.4M
- Rohingya0.5%894.1K
- Chakma0.2%371.1K
- Burmese0.2%354.3K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against bn-BD, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
2
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Other-Brahmic
Bundle a Noto-class webfont that covers this script. OS defaults vary.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
২১ এপ্রিল, ২০২৬
Short: ২১/৪/২৬
Time
৬:৩০ PM
Week starts Sun
Currency
১,২৩৪.৫৬৳
1,234.56 in BDT · Bangladeshi Taka
The engineering behind the flags: Font fallback: why the OS picks the wrong glyphs for this script