Country scorecard
Bangladesh
Asia · 171M people
ALPS
1.15
languages per person
#182 of 235 most multilingual
GLCI
7%
globally connected
Largely monolingual — the average person here speaks 1.1 languages.
Most connected partners
Where a random person from Bangladesh is most likely to share a language — the pair GLCI.
- 🇮🇳 India14%
- 🇫🇯 Fiji12%
- 🇯🇲 Jamaica10%
- 🇧🇸 Bahamas10%
What people speak
Share of the population with at least conversational (A2+) command.
- Bengali99%
- English10%
- Hindi6%
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