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Prices in Bangladesh 🇧🇩

In Bangladesh, mobile data costs $0.23, cigarettes costs $0.88 and diesel costs $0.94. That is 6 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in BDT, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Bangladesh has the lowest hourly earnings in the game, which makes the work-time column the only one worth reading closely: a dollar price that looks trivially cheap can still be an afternoon's pay. Domestic rice and vegetables are cheap; everything that arrives by ship is not, and the taka has lost a large share of its dollar value since 2022, so a converted figure ages quickly. VAT is 15%, high for a country at this income level, and it comes with a thicket of reduced rates rather than a clean exemption for food, so the tax wedge on a basket is hard to state in one number.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Macno data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)no data
Cappuccinono data
Milk (1 litre)no data
Eggs (dozen)no data
Apples (1 kg)no data
Gasoline (1 litre)no data
Diesel (1 litre)$0.94115 BDT88 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$6.30774.2 BDT9.8 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$1.10135.8 BDT1.7 h
Cigarettes (20-pack)$0.88104 BDT83 min
Beer (330ml)no data
Spirits (750ml bottle)no data
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$0.23—22 min
A day's healthy diet$1.32160.36 BDT2.1 h

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Bangladesh compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Bangladesh is most expensive for natural gas (100 kWh), where it ranks 31st out of 31 countries at $1.10, against a global median of $9.80.

It is relatively cheapest for diesel at $0.94, which is 47th of 49, only 2 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 9.8 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Bangladesh: 15% VAT. Where these come from.

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Bangladesh prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Bangladesh?
Pricele publishes 6 everyday prices for Bangladesh, each from a named source. Mobile data $0.23, Cigarettes $0.88, Diesel $0.94. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.
What currency is used in Bangladesh?
Bangladesh uses the BDT. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.
What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Bangladesh list?
Of the 6 items priced for Bangladesh, the cheapest is Mobile data at $0.23 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $6.30. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Bangladesh prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Bangladesh.