In addition to besting India in several HDI factors, Bangladesh bests India in urbanization too (per CIA Factbook).
| Urbanization | urban population: 34.9% of total population (2020)
rate of urbanization: 2.37% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) | urban population: 38.2% of total population (2020)
rate of urbanization: 3.17% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.) |
Indians are breeding like rabbits...
| Population growth rate | 1.1% (2020 est.) | 0.98% (2020 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 2.35 children born/woman (2020 est.) | 2.11 children born/woman (2020 est.) |
Several health indicators will show what we already know...
| Infant mortality rate | total: 35.4 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 34.4 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 36.5 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.) | total: 28.3 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 30.6 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 26 deaths/1,000 live births (2020 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 69.7 years
male: 68.4 years
female: 71.2 years (2020 est.) | total population: 74.2 years
male: 72 years
female: 76.5 years (2020 est.) |
| Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 33.4% (2016/18) | 21.9% (2017/18) |
| Health expenditures | 3.5% (2017) | 2.3% (2017) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 53.5% (2015/16) | 62.3% (2014) |
However besting India cannot be the end goal of any country, it is self-defeating. India's position in HDI is not the world's best. Everyone knows that.
