Bangladesh is classified by the United Nations (UN) as a ‘least developed country’, but it will ‘graduate’ from this category in 2026. However, the government of Bangladesh has an ambitious target for the country to become classified as a ‘developed’ country by 2041. It calls this target ‘Vision 2041’. Table 1, below, shows that Bangladesh has made huge process in many areas over the past 30 years.
If you delve behind some of the numbers in the table, you can see some very positive progress. For example, what the increased literacy rate doesn’t show is that with nearly 6.9 million girls in secondary school in 2022, Bangladesh is among the few developing countries to have gender parity (meaning an equal number of both boys and girls) in school enrolment. In fact, Bangladesh has even more girls than boys in secondary schools – a really important step for gender equality.
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