Bangladesh

Main article: Countries of the world

Population

Population

2022:168 million people

Migration

2021: Net outflow over 4 years

Marriages

Allowed to have more than one spouse

Hunger

Smoking

2018: Bangladesh - in 9th place in the world in the number of smokers

Mortality

Traffic safety

2019: Number of deaths due to poor ecology

2016: Number of deaths from opioid use disorders

Economy

GDP

2022

Growth of Bangladesh's share of global PPP GDP to 0.83% due to population growth

GDP size forecast - $0.39 trillion

2021: GDP size - $0.36 trillion

Financial system

Main article: Central Bank of Bangladesh

National debt

2022: 20.6% OF GDP

Bangladesh's public debt was 20.6% of the country's nominal GDP in December 2022, down from 19.2% the previous year.

External debt

2019: Debt to Russia - $2.4 billion

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Energy supplies

2022: Protests as fuel prices rise by 50%

In August 2022, large-scale rallies began in Bangladesh due to a 50% increase in fuel prices. After the imposition of sanctions against Russia against the background of the conflict in Ukraine, the EU countries chose the volume of fuel and bought LNG tankers that went to Bangladesh from other markets. This is how fuel from Russia was replaced. Representatives of Bangladesh have already blamed Europe for this.

Power

Bangladesh Nuclear Power Plant

Main article: Bangladesh Nuclear Power Plants

2020: Energy consumption per capita

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Outsourcing IT

The leader of IT outsourcing for 2019 is traditionally India, where there are many cheap programmers (even if most of them graduated from two-week courses).

But at this time, India is being squeezed by new players, such as Bangladesh, which has become, thanks to the accessible Internet in cities and a large number of qualified specialists, already the second most freelance employees in the world, it accounts for 16% of their total. According to this indicator, Bangladesh is still inferior to India (24%), but ahead of the United States (12%).

Russia ranks 12th in this market with a share of about 1%. This is stated in a study by the Oxford Institute. Internet

One in 10 of Bangladesh's 44 million young people are unemployed, with thousands of skilled professionals unable to find work. As a result, they get an additional specialty in IT and get an outsider in a foreign company. According to ICT, out of 650,000 freelancers in Bangladesh, about 500,000 regularly work, earning more than $100 million a year.

Foreign trade

2023

3rd place in terms of clothing exports to the United States

Importer of rice number 5 in the world - 1.3 million tons

2022

The United States is the largest export destination

Suspension of textile supplies to Russia due to sanctions during the conflict in Ukraine

Bangladesh Ambassador to Moscow Kamrul Ahsan in August 2022 announced problems with the export of textiles to Russia due to the complication of logistics. Textile exports were the main item of trade between the two countries.

Textile exports have now stopped because no one wants to transport goods to Russian ports. Air travel could be a way out of this situation. Someone is trying to export through China, but it is quite difficult.

2021: In the five largest rice producing countries - 34.77 million tons

Agriculture

2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture

Consumption

Meat

2023: Fish consumption is higher than meat consumption

Ecology

2021

Among the anti-leaders for clogging the world's oceans with plastic

The United States, which ranks third in the scale of clogging of the world's oceans. Researchers have acknowledged that the US and Britain are taking huge amounts of plastic for burial to other countries and their contribution to clogging the world's oceans is key.]]

First place in terms of air pollution

In March 2022, Greenpeace, in collaboration with the development company AirVisual, compiled an annual rating of the countries of Europe and the world with the cleanest air. Things are worst in Bangladesh. In this country, the level of air pollution at the end of 2021 amounted to 76.9 PM2.5 (mkg/m³). Read more here.

Alcohol market

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

History

2023: Ban on 69 Russian ships from entering ports in line with EU and US sanctions

The Bangladesh government in February 2023 banned 69 Russian ships from entering their ports in accordance with EU and US sanctions during the conflict in Ukraine. Ships will not be able to import cargo, stop for refueling, anchor and use sea routes in the area. The restrictions will affect the construction of the country's largest energy facility - the Rooppur NPP, which is being built with the support of Moscow.

2009: "Bangladeshi Riflemen" mutiny

In February 2009, the Bangladesh Riflemen mutiny took place. Then the rebel units seized the headquarters of the border guards in the capital Dhaka, demanding an increase in salaries and allowances, as well as a longer vacation. Later, other areas of the country were involved in the riots.

The rebels abandoned their plans the day after the riot began, when authorities promised amnesty to anyone who voluntarily lay down their arms. In total, according to official figures, 74 people were killed in the rebellion, 57 of whom held high-ranking positions in the army.

During the trials of the rebels, which lasted for three subsequent years, more than six thousand border guards were convicted. Human rights defenders regularly criticized the processes, noting, in particular, the use of torture against suspects and poor conditions of their detention.

On October 20, 2012, the court convicted 723 participants in the rebellion of local border guards, the Bangladeshi Riflemen, which took place in 2009. This was reported by BBC News^[1].

In total, 735 people were accused in the process, which was reportedly the last in a series of similar courts. Ten of them were acquitted, and two more died in custody during the trial.

1909

XVI century: The beginning of mass settlement of the region and the formation of state institutions

At the beginning of the 16th century, the territory of present-day Bangladesh was an almost uninhabited jungle. During the Delhi Sultanate era, this territory was used as a place of exile for criminals. Thieves and robbers were lowered in boats down the Ganges and let out - go wherever you want. That is, the region was perceived as a kind of Australia.

This is not to say that it was completely empty. Hunters and gatherers lived there, as well as a few tribes engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture. But there was no organized class society there, as there was no urban civilization. Unlike, incidentally, West Bengal, now part of India, which was densely populated and where a developed Hindu civilization existed. Historical Bengal looked like this: an agricultural Hindu West, and a hunting and gathering East, without cities and without organized religion.

Colonization of present-day Bangladesh began in earnest only under the Mughals. The settlers cleared the jungle and smashed rice fields in their place. On rice, the population began to grow with terrible force, so soon the natives had to switch to settled agriculture - due to lack of space.

In parallel with this, there was a process of cultivating the region - the plantation of organized religion and civilization. It is reflected in the Bengali premahyanas - parables that were composed by Sufi dervishes who Islamized what later became Bangladesh. In one of them, the main feat of the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) is that he single-handedly cleared and planted the Palestinian jungle. From the point of view of the Bengali Sufis, religious asceticism and colonization are ultimately one thing.

200 BC: As part of the Mauryan Empire

Education

2019: Number of years of education by citizens over 25

2018: Literacy rate

Health care

Maternity leave

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2020: Duration of guaranteed paid sick leave less than a month

Crime

Prisons

2019: The minimum age for children to be jailed is 8

2018: Number of prisoners

Sport

2022: The most popular sport is cricket

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