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মাছ, বন্দর ও উপকূল এগিয়েছে। কিন্তু বিশ্বব্যাংকের যাচাইযোগ্য সমন্বিত সমুদ্র অর্থনীতি ধারা ২০১৪-১৫ অর্থবছরে থেমে আছে। সম্ভাবনার প্রথম অবকাঠামো তাই নতুন প্রকল্প নয়, একটি প্রকাশ্য মহাসাগর হিসাব।
The extension to 2029 has not been granted, and it comes with a rubric. Bank non-performing loans have more than tripled to 30.6% of gross loans, tax revenue has moved one percentage point in two decades, and 81.5% of goods exports are garments, half of them sold under a trade preference that ends at graduation.
Bangladesh grows cereals at 1.464 times the peer median yield and sits third of six on population hunger. Its under-fives are the most wasted and the most stunted of the four countries reporting.
Bangladeshi banks held capital worth 2.29% of assets in 2024, last of six Asian economies, while carrying non-performing loans of 9.57% of gross loans, the highest of the six. The lending side has already started to shrink.
Bangladesh used 287.8 kg of oil equivalent per person in 2023, the lowest energy use per person of six Asian economies and 29% of the peer median, while running the third-largest manufacturing sector in the group relative to GDP. Whether that number records efficiency or a ceiling is the question the data cannot settle.
Bangladesh generated 21.69% of its electricity from oil in 2023, the highest share of six Asian economies and thirteen times the peer median. It still delivers 602.9 kWh per person, fifth of the six. The expensive fuel is not buying abundance.
Bangladesh carries 1,319 people on every square kilometre, the densest of six Asian economies, and has already put 72.31% of its territory under agriculture, the largest share of the six. The extensive margin is finished. What remains is yield, fertiliser and water.
59% of Bangladeshi births had a skilled attendant in 2019, the lowest of the four countries reporting. The physician shortage is ordinary; the nursing and midwifery shortage is a factor of six.
Bangladesh scores 2.6 on the World Bank's logistics index, the lowest of the five countries reporting in 2022, and its carriers fly about a tenth of the peer median in air freight. The bill is paid in time, and it is charged to exactly the goods the country says it wants to sell.
Bangladesh drove open defecation to 0% and put 98.78% of its people on a basic water source. Basic sanitation still reaches 67.62%, the lowest of six Asian economies, leaving 56.2 million people on the rung below.
Manufacturing is 22.4% of Bangladesh's GDP, third of six Asian economies. Industry employs 18.0% of its workers, last of the six. Agriculture still holds 44.3%.
Headline unemployment is 3.78%, third of six Asian economies and close to the peer median. Among Bangladeshis with advanced education it is 10.85%, 4.72 times the median of the three peers that report the series.
Bangladesh took US$1.28 billion of net foreign direct investment in 2024, the least of six Asian economies and 6.3% of the peer median. Vietnam, an economy of almost the same size, took 15.79 times as much.
Bangladesh's mean PM2.5 exposure is 69.25 micrograms per cubic metre, the highest of six Asian economies and 2.8 times the peer median. It is also the least urban of the six, with most of its urbanisation still ahead.
Pre-primary enrolment is 36.38% gross, roughly half the peer median of 74 and the lowest of the four Asian economies reporting. Bangladesh clears the primary school gate above the peer median and falls behind on both sides of it.
Manufactures were 94.45% of Bangladesh's merchandise exports in 2018, the highest of six Asian economies. High-technology goods were 0.54% of those manufactures, the lowest of the six. Total merchandise exports were US$47.2 billion in 2024, 15.7% of the peer median.
Bangladeshi women now have 2.138 children, close to the peer median of 1.962. Bangladeshi teenagers give birth at 70.8 per 1,000, the highest of six Asian economies and 2.8 times the peer median. The two standard explanations do not fit.
Bangladesh's government spends 0.31% of GDP on health, the least of six Asian economies. Households cover the rest, and still buy the region's longest male life. Why that trade is ending.
Internet use in Bangladesh reached 53.42% of the population in 2024, the lowest of six Asian economies, leaving 80.8 million people offline. Fixed broadband density is 1.64 times the peer median, which is what makes the number hard to explain away.
Bangladesh has the highest secondary gender parity of the four countries reporting, 1.14 girls per boy, and the lowest tertiary parity of the five, 0.77. Every peer that reports both reads higher at university than at school. Bangladesh reads 0.37 ratio points lower.
Fewer than half of Bangladeshi adults held an account in 2024, fifth of six Asian economies and 27.27 points under the peer median. The shortfall is proportionally deepest where income cannot explain it: among the better-off, among the young, among women.
Bangladesh's listed shares turned over 14.54% of their value in 2024, the lowest of the five countries reporting and roughly a quarter of the peer median. It saves more of its national income than every peer but Indonesia among the five that report.
বাংলাদেশ প্রয়োজনের চেয়ে বেশি কোরবানির পশু পালন করে, তারপর প্রতিটি পশুর দাম চোখের আন্দাজে ঠিক করে, ঢাকায় টেনে আনে, আর শেষ কয়েক দিনে কৃষকের ক্ষতিতে বাজার ভেঙে পড়তে দেয়। একটি ওজন মাপার যন্ত্রই বেশিরভাগ সমস্যার সমাধান।
Bangladesh raises more sacrificial cattle than it needs, then prices each animal by eye, hauls it to Dhaka, and lets the market collapse over the final days at the farmer's expense. A weighing scale fixes most of it.
প্রায় ১.৫৯ কোটি বাংলাদেশি পাঁচ মিটারের কম উচ্চতায় বাস করেন। দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিমে লবণাক্ততা ইতিমধ্যে ধানের ফলন ভেঙে দিয়েছে। অভিযোজন আভ্যন্তরীণ ট্রিয়াজ, আন্তর্জাতিক অ্যাডভোকেসি নয়।
Approximately 15.9 million Bangladeshis live below five metres of elevation. Salinity has already collapsed rice yields in the southwest. Adaptation is internal triage, not international advocacy.
বাংলাদেশ তার পণ্যের ৬২ শতাংশ ইইউ ও যুক্তরাজ্যে রপ্তানি করে। ২০২৯ সালের নভেম্বর থেকে সেই অগ্রাধিকার শেষ। তিন বছরের অবকাশ-জানালা আলোচনার জন্য, বিলম্বের জন্য নয়।
Bangladesh exports 62 percent of its goods to the EU and UK. From November 2029, those preferences end. The three-year grace window is for negotiation, not for delay.
তিন দশকেও বাংলাদেশের কর-জিডিপি অনুপাত নয় শতাংশের নিচে আটকে আছে। নভেম্বরে এলডিসি থেকে উত্তরণের পর এই মেঝে-ই আমাদের রাষ্ট্রের ছাদ হয়ে দাঁড়াবে।
Bangladesh has not raised its tax-to-GDP ratio in three decades. Six months from LDC graduation, that floor has become the ceiling.
বাংলাদেশ প্রাথমিক-বয়সী শিশুদের ৯৮ শতাংশকে স্কুলে ভর্তি করে। দশ বছর বয়সে প্রায় ৫৭ শতাংশ একটি সহজ অনুচ্ছেদ পড়তে পারে না। ভর্তি সমাধান হয়েছে। শিক্ষা হয়নি।
Bangladesh enrolls 98 percent of primary-age children. By age ten, roughly 57 percent cannot read a simple passage. Enrollment is solved. Learning is not.
সরকারি হিসাবে খেলাপি ঋণ ৯.৬ শতাংশ। রাষ্ট্রায়ত্ত ব্যাংকগুলোর হিসাবে ২৫ শতাংশ। সত্যিকার পুনর্মূলধনায়ন দুই দিকেই চলে: মূলধন ভেতরে, জবাবদিহি বাইরে।
Basel III reclassification ended years of understatement: the honest non-performing loan ratio hit a record 35.7 percent in late 2025, far above the long-reported single digits. State-owned banks hold the worst of it. A real recapitalization runs both ways: capital in, accountability out.
দেশীয় গ্যাসের মজুদ ২০৩১ সালের মধ্যে ফুরাবে বলে ধরা হচ্ছে। এলএনজি আন্তর্জাতিক মূল্যে এখনই এক-চতুর্থাংশ সরবরাহ কভার করছে। সৌর-ই একমাত্র পথ যা যথেষ্ট দ্রুত স্কেল করতে পারে।
Domestic gas reserves are estimated to deplete by 2031. LNG already covers a quarter of supply at international prices. Solar is the only path that scales fast enough.
কৃষি-আবহাওয়ার যে ব্যবস্থা বাংলাদেশে এখনো নেই, এবং সাধারণ পাবলিক এপিআই দিয়ে এক সপ্তাহে যা গড়া যায়
Bangladesh has the science, the institutions, and the forecasts. What it does not have is the bridge from numbers to fields.
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নয় বছর পরে, যে নথিবিহীন প্রজন্মের ভবিষ্যৎ আমরা এখনও স্বীকার করিনি
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