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Digital twin
The digital twin of the state: every entity, mapped and linked.
The local layer: districts and upazilas across the country.
The Annual Development Programme by ministry, with execution rates.
Government-linked companies, their ownership, and board links.
State-owned enterprises by sector and finances, and their owners.
Economic zones and export processing zones, by location and status.
The largest development projects: cost, financier, and delivery.
The state
Jatiya Sangsad: members, committees, and the legislature.
Ministries, divisions, and the directorates beneath them.
How the layers fit together, from constitution to local body.
Who answers to whom: the oversight lines across the state.
The dependency graph linking entities, budgets, and officials.
The law Bangladesh governs by, 1849 to 2023
Every government acts through law it inherited and law it wrote. This page lays out the standing body of Bangladeshi legislation by era and by type. Two patterns stand out: a layer of colonial statute still in force more than a century later, and a clean break in ordinance-making after the return to parliamentary democracy.
Composition
Composition
Endpoints
Endpoints
The complete corpus
Beyond the curated registry above, the full Laws of Bangladesh database carries 1,339 acts from 1799 to 2026. The recent spike is structural: the ordinances issued while parliament stood dissolved were converted into acts once a new parliament sat.
Acts passed per year
Latest acts on the books
Laws of Bangladesh (bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd), Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division. Refreshed weekly.
Method and sources
Source: the GovTwin legal-framework registry, 142 instruments spanning 1849 to 2023: acts, ordinances, constitutional articles, policies and rules. Era bands group each instrument by enactment year. The registry tracks instruments recorded as currently in force; that coverage is not a claim that the colonial statutes listed here are unamended, only that they remain on the books. The absence of any ordinance after 1985 reflects the post-1990 return to parliamentary lawmaking, when ordinance-making by the executive was curtailed. See the government twin for the institutions that administer these laws.