# Bangladesh - Link: https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/ - Published: 2026-05-22T22:15:08-04:00 - 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 now live above $4.20 a day and the World Bank committed $1.1 billion to protect food security in 2026. * **175.7m**Citizens, 2025 * **79.5%**Live above $4.20 a day * **$1.1B**Emergency food security support, 2026 [Enter the Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-studio) [Read the Letter](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-letter) [The three mandates](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-mandates) You are entering ## The Perfect BangladeshDesign Studio Where Bangladeshis and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in. [Mandates](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-mandates)[Assets](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-assets) [Perfect Capita](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-pc)[Capital](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-capital) [Enterprises](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-enterprises)[Voices](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/#bp-voices) Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a **Co-designer of Perfect Bangladesh**: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life. [Become a Co-designer](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.org?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) Design Studio · Work with Perfect Nations ## One mission. Three depths. Every mandate makes the same four moves for Bangladesh. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market. 1. **01**Identify the assets 2. **02**Estimate Perfect Capita 3. **03**Co-design the capital architecture 4. **04**Launch the instruments and structures 1. Mandate 01 2. ### The Nation Briefing 3. 3 hours 4. A private session for the people who decide. 5. a. **01**Identify the assetsThe five sovereign assets on this page, walked through. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaCoverage of 29 and the Gap, explained. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureThe instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsThe path to market, outlined. 6. You leave withThe gap, named and sized 7. [Request a Nation Briefing](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=studio&country=Bangladesh) 8. Mandate 02 9. ### The Blueprint Lab 10. 3 days 11. Your team and ours, working the blueprint together. 12. a. **01**Identify the assetsThe ledger tested against your ministries’ own data. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaEach of the seven standards costed in Bangladeshi prices. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureOne financing structure, drawn with your team. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsA term sheet and the partners to approach. 13. You leave withThe structure, drawn 14. [Plan a Blueprint Lab](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=studio&country=Bangladesh) 15. Mandate 03 16. ### The Sovereign Mandate 17. End to end 18. Led personally by the President and CEO. 19. a. **01**Identify the assetsA full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified. b. **02**Estimate Perfect CapitaPerfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan. c. **03**Co-design the capital architectureThe full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing. d. **04**Launch the instrumentsTaken to investors and development partners, through to close. 20. You leave withA structure ready for market 21. [Discuss a Sovereign Mandate](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?about=commission&country=Bangladesh) For the Government of Bangladesh, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins. Bangladesh in BloomNation Portrait · [The Gallery](https://perfectnations.org/gallery/) 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. 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.org/dear-bangladesh/) Dispatches ## Letters from the markets. Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Bangladesh, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Nusrat Rahman, Nation Steward of Bangladesh. [All dispatches](https://perfectnations.org/state-of-nations/) Perfect Nations™ · State of NationsForthcoming ### The first dispatch on Bangladesh is in preparation. Dispatches appear here as soon as they are published. Design Studio · Writings ## Write Perfect Bangladesh _into being._ An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Bangladesh and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission. [Submit your writing](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.org?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) or email [contact@perfectnations.org](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.org) Sovereign Assets ## Five assets no balance sheet counts. Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Bangladesh closer to Perfect Capita. * 01 * ### The People * 175.7mCitizens, 2025 * 33 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish. * 02 * ### The Land * 72.2%Of land in farms and pasture * The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned. * 03 * ### The Forest * 14.4%Of land under forest * Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep. * 04 * ### The Water * 620 m³Renewable fresh water per person * Below the scarcity line of 1,000 cubic metres: every drop must be stored, treated and reused. * 05 * ### The Power * 1.5%Of energy from renewables, 2021 * Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity. What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Bangladesh toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below. [Sovereign Assets](https://perfectnations.org/sovereign-assets/) Design Studio · Perfect Capita ## The Bangladesh wheel: held at 29 by energy * **To set**Perfect CapitaThe yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Bangladesh in its own prices. * **To set**The price of Perfect BangladeshPerfect Capita times the population: the national bill, each year. * **29**CoverageOut of 100, set by energy, the standard Bangladesh provides least. * **~125m**The GapBangladeshis who cook without clean fuel or technology: 71 in every hundred. **The Living Line**The poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Bangladesh at 29, by energy, with shelter at 37.3 and education at 48.8 next. 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.org/perfect-capita/#pq-measures) * 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, 2023](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/universal-health-coverage-index?country=~BGD) * 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) 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. The Research · Capital Architecture ## Bangladesh has carried its people through shock after shock. Next, a clean stove in every home. The record in figures * **$1.1B**Emergency support for food security and livelihoods: Food security and livelihoods[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) * **To be agreed**New IMF-supported programme (requested): Size to be set in negotiation [IMF, 2026](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/06/03/pr26182-bangladesh-authorities-request-for-a-new-imf-supported-program) The register * MultilateralActiveEmergency support for food security and livelihoodsApproved June 2026 · Emergency financing$1.1B * Food security and livelihoods * Protects households from the fuel and food shocks of 2026. * 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) * MultilateralActiveFinancial Sector Support Project IIApproved 24 June 2026 · Investment project financing$450M * Deposit insurance and bank supervision * Protects small savers and strengthens the central bank’s supervision. * World Bank * [Source](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/24/world-bank-helps-bangladesh-strengthen-its-banking-sector) * MultilateralActiveModernising social protectionApproved March 2025 · Investment project financing$200M * 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) * MultilateralRequestedNew IMF-supported programme (requested)Requested 3 June 2026To be agreed * 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) ### The Bangladesh Newswire [State of Nations](https://perfectnations.org/state-of-nations/) ![Nusrat Rahman, Nation Steward of Bangladesh](https://perfectnations.org/wp-content/ uploads/2026/10/nusrat-rahman-nation-steward-of-bangladesh.png) **Nusrat Rahman**Nation Steward of Bangladesh · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published. Last updated 30 October 2026 * 26 Jun 2026[**World Bank provides USD 1.1bn to safeguard food security**](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) World Bank * 24 Jun 2026[**World Bank approves USD 450m to protect savers and strengthen banks**](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2026/06/24/world-bank-helps-bangladesh-strengthen-its-banking-sector) World Bank * 3 Jun 2026[**Bangladesh requests a new IMF-supported programme**](https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2026/06/03/pr26182-bangladesh-authorities-request-for-a-new-imf-supported-program) IMF [Capital Architecture](https://perfectnations.org/capital-architecture/) Design Studio · Enterprises ## Already working in Bangladesh. [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=An%20enterprise%20for%20Perfect%20Bangladesh) * In preparation * ### The enterprises building Perfect Bangladesh * The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Bangladesh. Suggest one to include. * [Suggest an enterprise](https://perfectnations.org/blueprints/bangladesh/contact@perfectnations.org?subject=An%20enterprise%20for%20Perfect%20Bangladesh) Design Studio · Voices of Bangladesh Launching soon ## The people already⏎ _building it._ The question every guest answers > “What does Bangladesh already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for > every citizen?” We are looking for the people with real stories from Bangladesh: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive. [Nominate yourself](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=bangladesh&topic=nominate-self) [Suggest a guest](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=bangladesh&topic=guest) The Bangladesh Design 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 Perfect Nations Design Studio](https://perfectnations.org/design-studio/) [Write to us](https://perfectnations.org/contact/?nation=bangladesh) [All 195 nations](https://perfectnations.org/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 register line, as linked.