- ISO 3166
BD- Main language + region
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.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
90.1M
0%world median 81%100%
53% of 168.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
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 spending power, not revenue.
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 6.5%
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. 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 another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
CLDR records Bangla in 4 territories and 279.9M speakers in total; Bangladesh holds 59% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Bangla profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (bn-BD).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
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