Costs Flying High?

Costs Flying High?

According to an analysis done by Bonik Barta, Dhaka's newly inaugurated Jatbari Flyover (Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover) is the MOST expensive flyover in the world - costing 2.1 billion BDT per km, 337% more expensive compared to Kolkata's Batanagar Flyover.

Source:
bonikbarta.com/sub-editorial/2013/11/18/22561/

Lost in the Dark

Lost in the Dark

3.7% of Bangladesh's population, or 6 million drug addicts, spend 70 million taka everyday on drugs. Although drug abuse is much lower in Bangladesh compared to India and Pakistan, it is a growing at an alarming rate, employing 100,000 people.

Sources:
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/drug-abuse-alarmingly-rising-in-bangladesh/
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(13)61426-9/fulltext
www.castlecraig.co.uk/blog/11/2013/addiction-india
www.tealeafnation.com/2012/07/a-look-at-one-of-chinas-fastest-growing-consumer-goods-illegal-drugs/
www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2012/jul/02/drug-use-map-world

I am Dhaka

I am Dhaka

Home to 14.6 million people, I am the most densely populated city in the world. I produce 23% of Bangladesh's GDP.

Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka
risebd.com/2013/03/09/a-look-into-dhaka-bangladesh-the-most-densely-populated-city-in-the-world/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population_density
archive.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=258340
www.bbs.gov.bd/webtestapplication/userfiles/image/National%20Accounts%20Reports/GDP/GDP_2011-12%20(p).pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity

Not even a fighting chance

Not even a fighting chance

While we push each other around in the cities fighting to get a slightly larger piece of the pie we don't need, let us remember that 46% of children in Bangladesh stay hungry everyday. Bangladesh has the world's HIGHEST malnutrition rate.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
southasia.oneworld.net/news/bangladesh-has-highest-rate-of-malnutrition-in-the-world#.Uo77ZicVPIU
www.unicef.org/sowc2011/pdfs/SOWC-2011-Main-Report_EN_02092011.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Bangladesh

Healthcare in Bangladesh - A Low Blow

Healthcare in Bangladesh - A Low Blow

Bangladesh has one of the lowest nurse to people and hospital bed to people ratios in the world, and a strikingly high incidence of self funded healthcare.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
kff.org/global-indicator/hospital-beds/
kff.org/global-indicator/physicians/
kff.org/global-indicator/nurses-and-midwives/
kff.org/global-indicator/out-of-pocket-expenditure-on-health/

What kills people in Bangladesh?

What kills people in Bangladesh?

17.11% of all deaths in Bangladesh is a result of heart disease - the proportion is far greater than the global rate of 11.24%. But, heart disease is the top most cause of death. Check out how many lives are lost to other diseases, and to road accidents, which has made its way to the top 10 causes of death.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs310/en/
www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/country-health-profile/bangladesh

Tit for Tat?

Tit for Tat?

There is finally a decision on minimum wage for RMG workers - BDT 5,300, a decision that BGMEA has recently accepted, although this is BDT 800 greater than their proposal of BDT 4,500. In lieu of their acceptance, BGMEA has made requests for favourable policies that outweigh the additional cost of BDT 800 by 23%.

Bangladesh in Numbers is extremely grateful to Zahid Hussain, Senior Economist of the World Bank, for the analysis used in this infographic.

Data Sources:
www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/new/2013/11/12/3597
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/tk-5300-rmg-minimum-wage-announced/
bdnews24.com/business/2013/11/13/rmg-bosses-accept-minimum-wage
www.bangladeshchronicle.net/index.php/2013/11/rmg-manufacturers-can-find-good-partners-in-s-korea/
www.bgmea.com.bd/chart/number_of_employment_in_garment

Not Simply Black or White

Not Simply Black or White 

The 1320 MW Rampal power project ensures that Bangladesh has the power it needs to keep growing, but threatens the sustainability of the Sundarbans.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/forest-fears/
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/why-the-eia-study-is-not-acceptable/
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/rampal-gets-rolling/

High Priced Convenience

High Priced Convenience 

Despite high mobile internet prices in Bangladesh, 95% of the country's 33 million internet users access the internet from their mobile phones!

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.dhakatribune.com/money/2013/jun/23/mobile-internet-costlier-bangladesh-neighbouring-countries
www.theindependentbd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171715:33-million-internet-users-in-bangladesh&Itemid=122

Bangladesh & Internet - A Phenomenal Growth

Bangladesh & Internet - A Phenomenal Growth

20% of all Bangladeshis (33 million) now access the internet - a phenomenal growth from only 617,300 in 2009! 95% of us access the internet from cell phones.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.theindependentbd.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171715:33-million-internet-users-in-bangladesh&Itemid=122
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/bangladesh-secures-161st-spot-in-internet-usage/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Bangladesh
www.netindex.com/download/allcountries/

Cox's Down by 95%

Cox's Down by 95%

Most of us stay home or move about cautiously during hartals, trying our best to avoid violence. For the 5,000 who have lost their jobs from hotels and tourist services in Cox's Bazar, hartal has dealt them a fate far worse than the wrath of an angry mob. It has robbed them of their livelihoods.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.wttc.org/site_media/uploads/downloads/bangladesh2013.pdf
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/tourists-cancel-trips-as-political-unrest-lingers/

He lives through his stories...

He lives through his stories...

Remembering the master storyteller, Humayun Ahmed, on his 65th birthday.

Sources:
facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
archive.thedailystar.net/magazine/2012/08/01/special.htm
bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/07/20/book-industry-still-gloomy
caravanmagazine.in/books/know-thy-neighbour
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humayun_Ahmed
articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-16/rashidul-bari/33233941_1_bengali-literature-bangladeshis-fictional-character

Financial Inclusion

Financial Inclusion

Bangladesh has the 2nd highest level (65%) of financial inclusion amongst SAARC countries, topped by Sri Lanka with 80% financial inclusion.

Source:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.inm.org.bd/seminar/microfinance_and_development/financial_inclusion.htm
www.inm.org.bd/document/Session%201_1_B.Khalily.pdf
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/bangladesh-comes-second-in-financial-inclusion-in-s-asia/

Siddikur

Siddikur

The man, the golfer

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.heroindianopen.com/players.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_Indian_Open
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddikur_Rahman

Mobile Revolution

Mobile Revolution

Did you know? Bangladesh has 110 million active mobile phone subscribers (67.5% of the population), with 42% using Grameenphone, 25% using Banglalink, and 22% using Robi. A 10% rise in mobile phone use is correlated with 1.2% increase in GDP!!

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.btrc.gov.bd/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=49&layout=blog&Itemid=502
www.amtob.org.bd/download/Mobile_Phone_Industry_as_Development_Partner_in_Bangladesh.pdf

Illegally Bound

Illegally Bound

Let Dhaka's modern ways of life not be an excuse for us to be oblivious to how women are really treated in Bangladesh. Bangladesh in numbers presents the ugly truth about child marriage. According to Plan Bangladesh and ICDDR,B, 64% of all women in Bangladesh between the ages of 20-24 were married before the age of 18.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.icddrb.org/media-centre/news/4156-national-survey-by-icddrb-reveals-prevalence-of-child-marriage-in-bangladesh
www.unicef.org/sowc09/docs/SOWC09-CountryExample-Mali.pdf

Obsession with 7

Obession with 7

What is it with Bangladesh and the number 7? Talk about Heptamania!

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/10/04/bangladesh-may-get-15-billion-in-remittance-in-2013
www.varsitybd.com/2013/02/bangladesh-open-university.html
www.natunbarta.com/english/si-tech/2013/06/13/5157
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_rankings_of_Bangladesh
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/bangla/pro-people.htm

What's 122 billion dollars?

What's 122 billion dollars?

Bangladesh's GDP is equal to Facebook's net worth? Putin has more money than Bangladesh's GDP? 

Really? 


Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
judgestarling.tumblr.com/post/63303341430/why-cant-amazon-a-122-billion-dollar-corporation
www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2012/01/13/15651.shtml
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2013/09/30/what-would-instagram-be-worth-today-if-it-ipoed/
money.ca.msn.com/savings-debt/gallery/dictators-and-their-wealth?page=6
www.forbes.com/profile/warren-buffett/

Justice

Justice

Following the BDR carnage in Feb 2009, 846 were brought to trial. And now, 152 are to hang for murder, 161 to serve life sentence, 262 to serve 3 to 10 years, and 271 have been acquitted.

Source:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/813-detained-accused-produced-before-court/

The Educated Minority

The Educated Minority

Do you know how fortunate you are to have graduated from university? You are now part of a very small minority of educated Bangladeshis.

Source: 
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
BBS Statistical Yearbook 2010, Page 436

What's the fair wage?

What's the fair wage?

Garment manufacturers have threatened to close down if they are forced to pay anything over Tk 4,500 as monthly wage to workers. Only 20 percent of the country’s 3.6 million-odd garment workers fall under the category of minimum wage.

Source:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
bdnews24.com/business/2013/11/05/will-shut-business-if-forced-to-pay

Unnecessary Deaths

Unnecessary Deaths

250 people have died in 2013 due to political violence. There have been 48 hartals in 2013.

Sources:
www.facebook.com/bangladeshinnumbers
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/hartal-violent-on-first-day/
www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/exams-business-in-tatters/