Atlas of Bangladesh

Dhaka packs 95 times more people per square kilometre than Rangamati

Rangamati 106.0 · Dhaka 10067.0 · Persons per km2

Sylhet's households hold 5.2 people, Gazipur's 3.3

Gazipur 3.33 · Sylhet 5.17 · Persons per household

Gopalganj is 27% Hindu, Meherpur 1%

Meherpur 1.2 · Gopalganj 26.9 · Per cent of population

Ethnic minorities are 1% of Bangladesh and 58% of Rangamati

Kurigram 0.0 · Rangamati 57.6 · Per cent of population

One woman in ten aged 10 and over is widowed

Gazipur 6.6 · Netrakona 11.8 · Per cent of women 10+

Gazipur grew three times faster than the country; only Jhalokati shrank

Jhalokati -0.28 · Gazipur 3.87 · Per cent a year

Brahmanbaria has 87 men per 100 women, Dhaka has 116

Brahmanbaria 87.0 · Dhaka 115.6 · Men per 100 women

Brahmanbaria carries nearly twice Dhaka's dependency burden

Dhaka 37.1 · Brahmanbaria 72.4 · Dependants per 100

Bangladesh is a third urban, but 54 of its 64 districts sit below that

Moulvibazar 14.3 · Dhaka 74.8 · Per cent of households

Rural Pirojpur, not Dhaka, has the country's highest literacy rate

Jamalpur 61.7 · Pirojpur 85.5 · Per cent literate

Female literacy spans 27 points, from Bandarban to Pirojpur

Bandarban 58.2 · Pirojpur 85.1 · Per cent literate

Women out-read men in only four of Bangladesh's 64 districts

Rangamati -13.2 · Chapai Nawabganj 2.2 · Percentage points

Brahmanbaria has 110 female students per 100 male, Rajshahi 82

Rajshahi 81.5 · Brahmanbaria 109.7 · Female per 100 male

In 49 of 64 districts, more than a third of 15-24s are not in education or work

Dhaka 25.4 · Lakshmipur 42.2 · Per cent NEET

In Bhola, 61% of young women are not in education, employment or training

Gazipur 40.7 · Bhola 61.4 · Per cent NEET

Young women's exclusion exceeds young men's in every district, by 31 to 50 points

Gazipur 31.2 · Chuadanga 50.2 · Percentage points

Agriculture still employs 63% of workers in Sunamganj and 5% in Dhaka

Dhaka 4.7 · Sunamganj 63.3 · Per cent of employed

Industrial work concentrates in a narrow Gazipur-Narayanganj corridor

Rangamati 3.7 · Gazipur 61.5 · Per cent of employed

Services are the largest sector in 19 districts but pass half in only seven

Kurigram 27.6 · Dhaka 62.7 · Per cent of employed

One woman in ten is employed, and in Feni one in sixteen

Feni 6.3 · Gazipur 30.0 · Per cent of women 5+

More than half of women and girls aged 5 and over do unpaid household work

Gazipur 38.3 · Meherpur 64.7 · Per cent of women 5+

Four in five Gazipur workers draw a wage, two in five in Netrakona

Netrakona 42.6 · Gazipur 79.1 · Per cent of employed

Three in ten Bandarban workers produce for their own household, not a market

Dhaka 2.1 · Bandarban 30.2 · Per cent of employed

Nowhere do more than 3% of people report looking for work

Narayanganj 0.7 · Jhalokati 2.9 · Per cent of people 5+

A third of Feni's households receive money from abroad, 0.7% of Lalmonirhat's

Lalmonirhat 0.7 · Feni 33.9 · Per cent of households

Dhaka's nights are fifteen times brighter than Rangamati's

Rangamati 0.38 · Dhaka 5.62 · Radiance

The southern coastal belt lit up fastest since 2014; Dhaka ranks 56th of 64

Brahmanbaria 48.0 · Patuakhali 416.7 · Per cent change

Food insecurity tracks the northern monga belt, led by Kurigram

Cumilla 3.1 · Kurigram 9.6 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Internet use in Dhaka is three and a half times Panchagarh's

Panchagarh 15.2 · Dhaka 53.0 · Per cent using internet

No district has half its people holding a bank account

Sunamganj 12.6 · Dhaka 34.6 · Per cent with an account

Mobile money reaches more people than banks do, in every district

Sunamganj 26.4 · Gazipur 51.4 · Per cent with an account

Mobile money's lead over banking runs from 4 points to 27

Munshiganj 3.7 · Kurigram 27.1 · Percentage points

More than half of people aged 5 and over have a phone in 53 of 64 districts

Sunamganj 42.7 · Dhaka 71.2 · Per cent with a phone

Four in five households own their home, and in Dhaka only 28%

Dhaka 27.5 · Meherpur 96.9 · Per cent of households

More than a quarter of households share a toilet with another household

Jhalokati 9.3 · Gazipur 44.6 · Per cent of households

Improved sanitation reaches 43% of Bandarban and 92% of Magura

Bandarban 42.8 · Magura 91.7 · Per cent of households

Ten districts fall below 95% on tap or tube-well water, led by Bagerhat at 57%

Bagerhat 56.8 · Natore 100.0 · Per cent of households

Electricity reaches 97% of general households in 59 of 64 districts

Bandarban 88.2 · Narayanganj 99.8 · Per cent of households

One house in fifty is brick-built in Kurigram, two in three in Dhaka

Kurigram 2.1 · Dhaka 67.8 · Per cent of households

The 12 districts with the most shanty housing are all delta or wetland

Bogura 0.07 · Cox's Bazar 7.99 · Per cent of households

Three in four households still cook on wood, dung or crop residue

Dhaka 13.0 · Kurigram 96.3 · Per cent of households

A third of Bandarban's households have soap and water at hand, nine in ten of Dhaka's

Bandarban 34.9 · Dhaka 89.0 · Per cent of households

Nine of the ten poorest upazilas are in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Belai Chhari -0.54 · Shyampur 2.0 · Relative Wealth Index

Reported disability is three times higher in Jhalokati than in Dhaka

Dhaka 0.73 · Jhalokati 2.33 · Per cent of people

Epidemic risk is highest where people are densest and most mobile

Pirojpur 4.3 · Dhaka 8.9 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Health services are thinnest in Sherpur and Cox's Bazar, best reached in Gopalganj

Gopalganj 3.2 · Sherpur 7.9 · INFORM score, higher is worse

Nearly three in five Bangladeshis live in the 100-year floodplain

Thakurgaon 3.1 · Jhalokati 98.3 · Per cent of population

99.5% of Jhalokati's people live below five metres; in Bogura, none do

Bogura 0.0 · Jhalokati 99.5 · Per cent of population

Every district breathes air at 8 to 17 times the WHO guideline

Sylhet 42.1 · Noakhali 85.3 · ug/m3, pop-weighted

Dhaka's people live 2.1C hotter than its average land surface

Cox's Bazar -2.9 · Dhaka 2.1 · Degrees Celsius

Nitrogen dioxide peaks over the Dhaka-Narayanganj industrial belt

Bandarban 17.9 · Narayanganj 143.1 · umol/m2

Aerosol loading is worst across the north-western border districts

Bandarban 0.313 · Thakurgaon 0.781 · AOD 550 nm

The hottest land surface runs along the western border, with Cox's Bazar the exception

Sunamganj 25.6 · Meherpur 28.1 · Degrees Celsius

Sunamganj gets nearly three times Chapai Nawabganj's rain

Chapai Nawabganj 1495.0 · Sunamganj 4233.0 · Millimetres a year

Dhaka's nights run 3.6C warmer than Panchagarh's

Panchagarh 21.4 · Dhaka 25.0 · Degrees Celsius

Drought risk concentrates in the north-west Barind, not the dry season generally

Gopalganj 0.6 · Chapai Nawabganj 10.0 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Cyclone risk stops at the coast: 40 of 64 districts score zero

Khagrachhari 0.0 · Satkhira 9.9 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Lightning risk peaks in the haor, where people work open ground in the monsoon

Bhola 0.0 · Habiganj 10.0 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Bandarban and Cox's Bazar carry the highest overall risk, Narayanganj the lowest

Narayanganj 4.4 · Bandarban 6.3 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

Five of the six highest-risk upazilas are in Bandarban

Meghna 4.5 · Raumari 6.5 · INFORM score, 0 to 10

The Hill Tracts stay green while the haor basin runs bare

Sunamganj 0.379 · Bandarban 0.734 · NDVI

Nearly half the country is cropland, and three-quarters of Naogaon

Bandarban 1.7 · Naogaon 74.5 · Per cent of land area

Bandarban is 97% tree cover, Khulna 11%

Khulna 10.7 · Bandarban 96.6 · Per cent of land area

Three districts hold 98% of Bangladesh's mangroves

Barishal 0.0 · Bagerhat 37.88 · Per cent of land area

Even Dhaka district is under a tenth built-up

Bandarban 0.2 · Dhaka 9.6 · Per cent of land area

Bandarban has lost tree cover across 27% of its land since 2001

Shariatpur 0.01 · Bandarban 27.01 · Per cent of land area

Permanent water covers 19% of Bhola and 3% of the country

Mymensingh 0.0 · Bhola 18.6 · Per cent of land area