Atlas · Living standards
Nine of the ten poorest upazilas are in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
Relative Wealth Index, mean of 2.4 km grid cells, by upazila
Partial
Some source data is unavailable; the verified results below remain usable.
Units without a source value are drawn without a fill, never as zero.
Highest upazila
Shyampur
2 Relative Wealth Index
Lowest upazila
Belai Chhari
-0.54 Relative Wealth Index
Coverage
536 of 544 upazilas carry a value. The remainder are drawn without a fill rather than as zero.
Unit
Relative Wealth Index
Reading this plate
The index is modelled and relative, not measured income. It carries no unit and is centred near zero for the country, so a negative value means below the national average, not poor in absolute terms. 313 of the 536 upazilas sit below zero. The ten highest are all Dhaka or Chattogram city thanas. Eight central Dhaka thanas are smaller than a single 2.4 km grid cell and so carry no value. The vintage of the underlying model is not recorded in the source file and could not be confirmed, so read this as a structural picture rather than a dated one.
Source
Meta Data for Good, Relative Wealth Index for Bangladesh, via HDX, retrieved 24 May 2026. 26,932 grid cells aggregated to upazila polygons by scripts/build_upazila_rwi.py
Source: Meta Data for Good, Relative Wealth Index for Bangladesh, via HDX, retrieved 24 May 2026. 26,932 grid cells aggregated to upazila polygons by scripts/build_upazila_rwi.py