# Bangladesh - Link: https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/ - Published: 2026-05-22T22:15:08-05:00 - Author: Preeti Sinha National Blueprint · One of 195 # Bangladesh A nation of 175.7 million on the world’s largest delta, where four in five lived above $4.20 a day in 2022 and the World Bank approved $1.1 billion of emergency support for food security and livelihoods in 2026. Perfect Nations values what Bangladesh owns and raises capital against it, through** innovative financing for development (FfD)** and **super intelligence (SI)**. Bangladesh at a glance * **175.7m**PeopleWorld Bank, 2025 * _Furthest from reach · Energy_**~125m**Bangladeshis who cook without clean fuel or technology[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=BD) * **10**Instruments and investments on record[Capital already committed](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-register) [Work with us](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-studio)[Read the Letter to Bangladesh](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-letter) What we do for Bangladesh ## Assets. Capital. Solutions. Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations. 1. [01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The People to The Power.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-assets) 2. [02CapitalThe laurels10 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-capital) 3. [03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Energy is furthest from reach today.](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-pc) **The whole logo:** a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance. [01](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-do)**Assets** · The cup· Sovereign Assets ## Five assets no balance sheet counts. Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Bangladesh toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen. * **175.7m**Citizens, 2025 * ### The People * 33 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish. * **72.2%**Of land in farms and pasture * ### The Land * The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned. * **14.4%**Of land under forest * ### The Forest * Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep. * **620 m³**Renewable fresh water per person * ### The Water * Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused. * **1.5%**Of energy from renewables, 2021 * ### The Power * Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity. [Every figure, with its source](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-sources) [The Sovereign Assets ledger](https://perfectnations.com/sovereign-assets/) [02](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-do)**Capital** · The laurels· Capital Architecture ## Bangladesh has carried its people through shock after shock. Next, a clean stove in every home. Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Bangladesh owns, every line sourced. [Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.com/capital-architecture/) The record in figures * **$1.1B**Two World Bank projects approved in June 2026: fertilizer imports, and cash transfers and fuel for essential services[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/26/bangladesh-world-bank-provides-1-1-billion-emergency-support-to-safeguard-food-security-livelihoods) * **$450M**Financial Sector Support Project II: Deposit insurance and bank supervision [World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/24/world-bank-helps-bangladesh-strengthen-its-banking-sector) * **$200M**Modernising social protection: Safety nets[World Bank, 2025](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/03/26/bangladesh-world-bank-approves-200-million-to-help-modernize-the-social-protection-system) * **42.1%**Public sector total debt, share of GDP, fiscal year 2025[IMF, 2026](https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/cr/2026/english/1bgdea2026001-source-pdf.pdf) * **$14.08B**World Bank IDA programme across 50 ongoing projects, one of the largest IDA programmes globally[World Bank, 2026](https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/country/bangladesh) Capital already committed * MultilateralApprovedEmergency support for food security and livelihoods$1.1B * Approved 26 June 2026 · Two projects, $300 million and $713 million * Fertilizer imports, cash transfers and fuel for essential services * The Emergency Support for Food Security Project ($300 million) finances imports of 600,000 metric tons of critical fertilizers, half of it urea, for 1.4 million hectares of rice in the Aman and Boro seasons. The Contingent Emergency Response Project ($713 million), from unutilized financing in existing projects, funds cash transfers and livelihood assistance for affected households and small firms, and fuel and energy to continue essential services. It carries food and livelihood. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/26/bangladesh-world-bank-provides-1-1-billion-emergency-support-to-safeguard-food-security-livelihoods) * MultilateralApprovedFinancial Sector Support Project II$450M * Approved 24 June 2026 · World Bank Board of Executive Directors * Deposit insurance and bank supervision * Bolsters the deposit protection system to protect small depositors, strengthens the central bank’s oversight, sets up an effective Emergency Liquidity Assistance framework and advances changes at state-run lenders. It protects the savings behind livelihoods. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/24/world-bank-helps-bangladesh-strengthen-its-banking-sector) * MultilateralSignedHealth, Nutrition and Population Sector Development Program $404M * Signed 10 June 2026 · 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2029 · Two projects * IDA credit of SDR 284.70 million and a $25 million GFF grant * Two projects under the national health programme: one strengthens health and nutrition services across the country, with a focus on the Chattogram and Sylhet divisions; the other improves climate-resilient reproductive health and population services. * World Bank (IDA)Global Financing FacilityEconomic Relations Division * [Source](https://b.bssnews.net/business/394478) * MultilateralRequestedNew IMF-supported programme (requested)To be agreed * Requested 3 June 2026 * Size to be set in negotiation * Follows the ECF, EFF and RSF arrangements approved in January 2023. * International Monetary Fund * [Source](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/06/03/pr26182-bangladesh-authorities-request-for-a-new-imf-supported-program) * MultilateralApprovedEnergy Sector Security Enhancement Project, Additional Financing $350M * Approved 15 May 2026 · IDA payment guarantee · Original project approved 18 June 2025 * Backs Petrobangla’s LNG import payments * An IDA payment guarantee-backed facility of standby letters of credit and short- term credit lines for Petrobangla’s LNG imports, so that it can contract supply for longer and rely less on costly spot purchases. It supports more reliable electricity. * World Bank (IDA)Petrobangla * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/factsheet/2026/05/18/world-bank-support-to-help-navigate-fuel-market-volatility-in-bangladesh) * MultilateralApprovedModernising social protection$200M * Approved March 2025 * Safety nets * Modernises the social protection system for the poorest families. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2025/03/26/bangladesh-world-bank-approves-200-million-to-help-modernize-the-social-protection-system) * RegionalSignedInclusive Affordable Housing Finance Project$100M * Approved 27 September 2026 · Signed 7 October 2026 · Concessional loan * Home loans for at least 40,000 households by 2031 * Long-term, collateral-free microfinance loans, through PKSF and microfinance institutions, for families with informal incomes to build, repair and upgrade their homes, with disaster-resilient design. The 40,000 households are to include at least 32,000 women. * Asian Development BankPalli Karma-Sahayak Foundation * [Source](https://www.adb.org/news/adb-approves-100-million-loan-expand-access-affordable-resilient-housing-finance-bangladesh) * RegionalApprovedSustainable Energy Development and Community Empowerment in the Chattogram Hill Tracts$175M * Approved 1 September 2026 · Concessional loan * Power for at least 88,000 more households in 26 upazilas * New and modernised distribution networks in Khagrachari, Rangamati and Bandarban: 5,032 km of new lines, six new substations, at least 30 solar-powered drinking water facilities, and solar backup for schools, clinics and other community buildings. * Asian Development BankBangladesh Power Development Board * [Source](https://www.adb.org/news/adb-approves-175-million-loan-modernize-power-networks-boost-jobs-services-bangladesh-chattogram-hill-tracts) * RegionalSignedStrengthening Economic Management and Governance Program, Subprogram 2$250M * Signed June 2026 · Policy-based loan · With the Asian Development Bank * Part of a proposed $750 million AIIB package * Budget support from AIIB’s Emergency Response Support Facility, jointly with ADB, to maintain macroeconomic stability and advance structural reforms as the conflicts in the Middle East weigh on the economy. * Asian Infrastructure Investment BankAsian Development Bank * [Source](https://b.bssnews.net/business/394271) * RegionalApprovedNarayanganj Green and Resilient Urban Development Project$115.8M * Approved 11 April 2026 · Loan * Water and drainage for at least 400,000 residents * Replaces and extends 230 km of water pipeline, adds metered household connections and raises supply from 113 to 162 million litres a day, with 22 km of drainage built with nature-based solutions and new green parks. * Asian Development BankNarayanganj City Corporation * [Source](https://www.adb.org/news/adb-approves-115-8-million-loan-strengthen-resilient-urban-services-narayanganj-bangladesh) ### The Bangladesh Newswire [The Solutions Wire](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-wire) ![Nusrat Rahman, Nation Steward of Bangladesh](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/ uploads/2026/10/nusrat-rahman-nation-steward-of-bangladesh-150x150.png) **Nusrat Rahman**Nation Steward of Bangladesh · SI ResearcherLast updated 13 November 2026 * 7 Nov 2026[**World Bank approves $300m to improve learning for 2.6 crore Bangladeshi children**](https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/education/world-bank-approves-300m-improve-learning-26-crore-bangladeshi-children-1595296) The Business Standard * 31 Oct 2026[**Bangladesh signs $450m loan deal with World Bank to strengthen financial sector**](https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/bangladesh-signs-450-million-loan-deal-world-bank-strengthen-financial-sector-1588171) The Business Standard * 16 Oct 2026[**Bangladesh seeks $4.5b IMF loan in 6 instalments through 2029**](https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/bangladesh-seeks-45b-imf-loan-6-instalments-through-2029-1574386) The Business Standard * 13 Oct 2026[**Mongla port modernisation: Bangladesh signs $335.78m Chinese loan**](https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/news/mongla-port-modernisation-bangladesh-signs-33578m-chinese-loan-4297446) The Daily Star * 7 Oct 2026[**ADB lends Bangladesh $275m for affordable housing, hill tracts power projects**](https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/bangladesh-signs-275m-adb-loan-deals-housing-power-projects-1565786) The Business Standard ## Already working in Bangladesh. Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Bangladesh, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations. [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=An%20enterprise%20already%20at%20work%20in%20Bangladesh) * Food * ### iFarmer * Finance, advice, farm inputs and buyers for smallholders: the company says it works with over 300,000 farmers and 24,000 farm retailers. * [Future Startup, 2026](https://futurestartup.com/2026/04/16/ifarmer-secures-1-5-million-from-symbiotics/) * Water * ### Drinkwell * Runs 302 Water ATM kiosks in Dhaka with Dhaka WASA; more than 750,000 families hold its prepaid water cards. * [The Business Standard, 2025](https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/dhakas-water-atm-users-grow-booth-expansion-fails-keep-pace-1319746) * Energy * ### SOLshare * Links solar home systems so neighbours can trade surplus power; about 40% of its customers were first-time electricity users. * [Ashden, 2020](https://ashden.org/awards/winners/solshare/) [03](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-do)**Solutions** · The seven stars · Perfect Capita ## Perfect Bangladesh, _star by star._ **Perfect Capita** is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Bangladesh in its own prices. [How Perfect Capita works](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/) **29** Energy · furthest from reach29% cook with clean fuels and technology[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=BD) Tap a star for its figure and source. The price of Perfect Bangladesh To be set with Bangladesh, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Bangladesh, each year. Read more * Food**73.8%**Not food insecure; 26.2% are moderately or severely food insecure [FAO, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.MSFI.ZS?locations=BD) * Water**59.1%**Safely managed drinking water[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS?locations=BD) * Shelter**37.3%**Safely managed sanitation[WHO/UNICEF, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.SMSS.ZS?locations=BD) * Energy**29**29% cook with clean fuels and technology[World Bank, 2024](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS?locations=BD) * Education**48.8**48.8% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2022[World Bank, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.LPV.PRIM?locations=BD) * Health**54**WHO service coverage index[WHO and World Bank, 2023](https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/gho-documents/gmr-2025_conference-edition_online.pdf) * Livelihood**79.5%**Above US$4.20 a day; 20.5% live below it[World Bank, 2022](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.LMIC?locations=BD) Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Bangladesh. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. [The strict measures](https://perfectnations.com/perfect-capita/#pq-measures) Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower- secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source. ### Solutions for Perfect Bangladesh [All Solutions](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#sn-solutions) * **Solution No. 02**9 Nov 2026 * ### 󠀁[The Clean Kitchen Fund](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#solution-02)󠁿 * Every family that leaves wood and dung behind earns a carbon credit that finances the next kitchen. - **01****The challenge**About 125 million Bangladeshis, 71 in every hundred, cook without clean fuel or technology. - **02****What Perfect Nations advises**Bangladesh should create a clean kitchen fund that lends stoves and cylinders through mobile money and sells a verified carbon credit for every household that stops cooking with wood and dung, so each switch finances the next. With super intelligence, every switch can be verified from the kitchen to the carbon registry, so credits sell at full value and the fund grows with every family it reaches. * **~125m**Bangladeshis who cook without clean fuel * From**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations[Read the Solution](https://perfectnations.com/state-of-nations/#solution-02) [Discuss this Solution](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=solution-2&country=Bangladesh) ![Bangladesh in Bloom, nation portrait of Bangladesh](https://perfectnations.com/ wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pn-portrait-bangladesh-768x768.png) Bangladesh in BloomNation Portrait · [Art of Nations](https://perfectnations.com/art-of-nations/) Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsBangladesh ## Dear Bangladesh, A red sun on a field of green: the green of your land and the red of those who gave their lives for it. Read more You have fed a nation of 175 million on one of the most crowded deltas on earth. “You clothe the world from a delta. Now let every Bangladeshi kitchen cook with clean fuel.” Yours in design,**Preeti Sinha**President and CEO, Perfect Nations[Read the full letter](https://perfectnations.com/dear-bangladesh/) Work with us · The ReDesign Studio ## The Perfect Bangladesh _ReDesign Studio_ One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Bangladesh, taken as far toward market as you choose. Read more For the Government of Bangladesh, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins. 1. **01**Identify the assets 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture 4. **04**Launch the instruments 1. Mandate 013 hours 2. ### The Nation Briefing 3. A private session for the people who decide. 4. You leave withThe gap, named and sized 5. Read more 6. a. **01**The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through. b. **02**Coverage of 29 and the Gap, explained. c. **03**The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted. d. **04**The path to market, outlined. 7. [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=briefing&country=Bangladesh) 8. Mandate 023 days 9. ### The Blueprint Lab 10. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together. 11. You leave withThe structure, drawn 12. Read more 13. a. **01**The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data. b. **02**Each of the seven standards costed in Bangladeshi prices. c. **03**One financing structure, drawn with your team. d. **04**A term sheet and the partners to approach. 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=lab&country=Bangladesh) 15. Mandate 03End to end 16. ### The Sovereign Mandate 17. Led personally by the President and CEO. 18. You leave withA structure ready for market 19. Read more 20. a. **01**A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified. b. **02**Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan. c. **03**The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing. d. **04**Taken to investors and development partners, through to close. 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?about=commission&country=Bangladesh) ### Co-design it with us Where Bangladeshis and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in. * Writings * #### Write Perfect Bangladesh into being. * Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Bangladesh, published with your name. * [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Writing%20for%20Perfect%20Bangladesh&body=Your%20name%2C%20or%20a%20pen%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0ATitle%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AYour%20vision%20of%20Perfect%20Bangladesh%2C%20and%20the%20economic%20solutions%20to%20achieve%20it%20%28up%20to%201%2C500%20words%29%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0AI%20confirm%20that%20this%20is%20my%20own%20original%20writing%2C%20and%20I%20give%20Perfect%20Nations%20permission%20to%20publish%20it%20with%20credit%20to%20me.%0D%0A) * Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon * #### The local leaders already building Perfect Bangladesh. * Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Bangladesh already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?” * [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=bangladesh&topic=nominate-self) [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=bangladesh&topic=guest) * Co-designers * #### Join the community. * Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer of Perfect Bangladesh**. * [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.com?subject=Becoming%20a%20Co-designer%20of%20Perfect%20Bangladesh&body=Your%20name%3A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20live%3A%0D%0AHow%20you%20would%20like%20to%20contribute%20%28writing%2C%20a%20voice%20for%20the%20podcast%2C%20an%20enterprise%2C%20your%20expertise%29%3A%0D%0A) The Bangladesh ReDesign Studio is open ## Design Perfect Bangladesh with us. Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply. [Enter the ReDesign Studio](https://perfectnations.com/design-studio/)[Write to us](https://perfectnations.com/contact/?nation=bangladesh) [All 195 nations](https://perfectnations.com/blueprints/) Sources 1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026. 2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data). 3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each line of Capital already committed, as linked. ![Bangladesh in Bloom, flag edition: the nation portrait of Bangladesh painted with its flag](https://perfectnations.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/pn-portrait-flag- bangladesh-768x768.png) Bangladesh in BloomNation Portrait, flag edition · [Art of Nations](https://perfectnations.com/art-of-nations/)