[🇧🇩] Global Ranking & Bangladesh

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Date of Event: Apr 9, 2025 Source : https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/q4wqi8x4l8

Bangladesh 47th most powerful country in the world
Staff Correspondent Dhaka
Updated: 08 Apr 2025, 21: 47

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Bangladesh ranked 47th out of 195 in the ranking of the world's most powerful countries, according to a report by US News and World Report.

The US News ranked Bangladesh in power sub-ranking of the Best Countries ranking, which is available on its website.

The ranking released in September 2024 evaluated 89 nations across 73 different attributes, which were grouped into 10 subrankings, ranging from entrepreneurship, open for business to power. A month-long survey was conducted on nearly 17,000 global citizens from 36 countries, ending on 23 May 2024.

Meanwhile, United States ranked atop in the list of most powerful countries, followed by China, Russia, United Kingdom and Germany. South Korea came at sixth place, followed by France, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Israel is the 10th most powerful country in the world while India came at 12th place.

“The world’s most powerful countries are the ones that consistently dominate news headlines, preoccupy policymakers and shape global economic patterns. Their foreign policies and military budgets are tracked religiously. When they make a pledge, at least some in the international community trust – or fear – they will keep it. These countries project their influence on the world stage,” US News said in its website.

“The Power subranking is based on an equally weighted average of scores from six country attributes that relate to a country's power: a leader, economically influential, has strong exports, politically influential, strong international alliances and strong military,” it added.

Bangladesh scored 5.3 on a leader, 5.2 on economically influential, 22.2 on having strong exports, 5.2 on politically influential, 3.9 on strong international alliances and 7.0 on a strong military.

The country, however, came at 71st position in the Best Countries Overall ranking. Bangladesh also ranked 29th in Open for Business and 66th in Entrepreneurship sub-rankings.

Bangladesh is a country in Asia, known for the Sundarbans mangroves and Bengal Delta. It has a population of 175.7 million, making it the 8th largest country in the world. Bangladesh has an export-oriented economy with strong garment sector.

Life expectancy in Bangladesh is currently at 73.4 years of age, with an overall happiness ranking of 115 out of all other countries with recorded data. The accessibility of clean water and improved sanitation is still struggling with respective numbers of 13.1 per cent struggling for clean water and 39.4 per cent struggling to access sanitation. Only 72.8 per cent of the population over 15 years of age is literate, with a GDP expenditure of only 2.5 per cent on education, according to World Population Review.

The ranking model was devised by BAV Group, which is a unit of global marketing communications company WPP, and researchers led by Professor David Reibstein from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, all in association with US News & World Report, according to Forbes India.​

 

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Bangladesh ranks 35th in military power

Bangladesh has been ranked 35th among the 145 countries considered for the annual Global Firepower review, 2025.

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Bangladesh ranks 35th in military power
Staff Correspondent Dhaka
Updated: 08 Apr 2025, 21: 52

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Bangladesh has been ranked 35th among the 145 countries considered for the annual Global Firepower review, 2025. The nation holds a PwrIndx (power index) score of 0.6062. A score of 0.0000 is considered ‘perfect’.

Among the Asian nations, Bangladesh is currently in the 17th position among 45 in terms of military strength.

The countries ahead of Bangladesh in Asia are – Russia, China, India, South Korea, Japan, Pakistan, Indonesia, Israel, Iran, Taiwan, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Singapore and North Korea. Neighbouring Myanmar came at the 18th place.

The list for 2025 was published recently which is now available on its website.

Bangladesh ranked 37th in 2024 and 40th in 2023 in the annual Global Firepower review.

Globalfirepower.com publishes a list of countries with military capacities every year, taking into consideration over 60 individual factors to determine a given nation’s PowerIndex score, with categories ranging from quantity of military units and financial standing to logistical capabilities and geography.

According to the latest report, United States is at the top of the list with 0.0744 power index followed by Russia (0.0788), China (0.0788), India (0.1184), South Korea (0.1656), United Kingdom (0.1785), France (0.1878), Japan (0.1839), Turkey (0.1902) and Italy (0.2164).

Among the South Asian nations, India is in the 4th place, Pakistan is in the 12th 7th place, Myanmar 37th, Sri Lanka 69th, and Nepal in the 126th place.

Like previous years, Bhutan remained at the last place (145th) with Power Index of 6.3934.

According to the latest information of Global Firepower, the numbers of active soldiers in Bangladesh Army are around 160,000 in, and. The number of tanks is 320, the number of armored vehicles is 11,584, and self-propelled artillery 56, towed artillery 546 and the number of rocket artillery is 110.

On the other hand, the number of members of Bangladesh Navy is around 25,100. The Navy has seven frigates, six corvettes, two submarines, 61 patrolling vessels and five mine warfare ships. The Bangladesh Navy, however, does not have any destroyer, aircraft carriers and helicopter carrying warships.

Global Fire Power also said the number of members of Bangladesh Air Force is around 17,000. The number of airplanes the force has is 214. Of them, 42 are fighters, 65 helicopters, 17 cargo planes, and 86 training jets. Alongside this, the BAF has four airplanes for special drives.

Ukraine, which is currently fighting against Russia, has been ranked 15th in the list.​