South Asia
Bangladesh
EU Compliance · Geopolitical Risk · Sourcing Attractiveness
Market-entry intelligence →Why these scores
EU Compliance, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Geopolitical Risk, by dimension
1 = lowest risk · methodology & sources
Attractiveness, by dimension
9 = most attractive · methodology & sources
Analyst scores, last reviewed June 2026; each dimension's sources and cadence are on its methodology page.
Data layers
Bangladesh and the EU
EU imports from
€21.2bn
0.8% of extra-EU
EU exports to
€2.1bn
0.1% of extra-EU
EU supplier rank
EU's #45 supplier
EU trade balance
one-sided
coverage 0.10
2025 annual totals, Eurostat COMEXT. EU trade board →
Electricity & grid
National sources · carbon from Ember
Industrial
68
EUR/MWh
Consumer
49
EUR/MWh, all-in
Grid carbon
695
gCO₂e/kWh
Renewables
4%
of generation
Wholesale 59 EUR/MWh · regulated market
Power market
● Take-or-pay / single-buyer lock-inMarket model
Single-buyer monopoly
Direct PPA
Prohibited
grid access: closed
Reserve margin
61%
Regulator
Not independent
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC)
A reserve margin near 61 percent from quick-rental and IPP capacity-payment PPAs, layered on rising imported-LNG and coal exposure, has blown BPDB's deficit past 4.5 billion dollars.
Tracked infrastructure
45 gas plants
11.5 GW · 4 building
12 coal plants
6.0 GW · 4 building
1 wind farms
60 MW
10 solar farms
987 MW · 4 building
0 nuclear plants
capacity n/a · 2 building
1 hydro plants
230 MW
1 coal mines
capacity n/a
Operating assets tracked by Global Energy Monitor (CC BY 4.0); counts are tracked facilities, not exhaustive totals. Energy overview →
Monitored ports (3)
Source: IMF PortWatch. Port count reflects monitoring coverage, not economic significance.
Demographics
UN World Population Prospects 2024 · medium variant
Median age
25.7
→ 35.5 by 2050
Fertility
2.14
above replacement
Working-age
65.5%
aged 15–64
Old-age dep.
9.9
→ 20.3 by 2050
Median age 1990–2050
Population 174M · peaks 2071
By 2050: +24% (215M)