Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in Bangladesh: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

Numbers on a page can feel detached from daily existence, yet the economic output of a nation charts the material boundaries of human experience. For Bangladesh, these figures measure the average yearly economic output per person, adjusted for purchasing power using 2017 international dollars. Every data point represents the tangible reality of resources available for food, shelter, and survival across generations.

The historical arc spans a long, gradual climb through the centuries. In the 1800s estimate it stood at 779.64, creeping slowly upward decade by decade through the 1890s estimate 859.69 and 1900 it was 868.58 intl-$. Growth gathered momentum into the mid-twentieth century and accelerated in later decades, reaching 3,721 in the 2010s and 5,100 intl-$ in the 2020s — ranking #116 of 157 countries. Projections map this trajectory onward toward 15,601 in the 2100s projection.

If you were born in Bangladesh across these eras, your economic reality shifted profoundly from the 1950s 955.64 to the bustling thresholds of the modern era. These statistics dictate the changing landscape of opportunity, labor, and sustenance defining millions of individual lives. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →