Population: 158,570,535
GDP per capita: $1,700
Capital: Dhaka

ABV commenced operating in Bangladesh in March, 2011.

Despite recent improvements, Bangladesh continues to face serious development challenges, including the need to enhance the quality of education, strengthen the health sector, improve governance and reduce inequality and extreme poverty. Bangladesh's vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and floods and cyclones, has a significant impact on development.

Although poverty rates are declining, Bangladesh remains one of the poorest and most densely populated countries in the world. About 80 per cent of Bangladesh's population live on less than $2 a day and 25 per cent (40 million) are classified as 'extreme poor'. The extreme poor are food-insecure, unable to afford 80 per cent of their minimum food needs. Maternal mortality rates remain unacceptably high, with an estimated 13,000 women dying every year due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth—one woman every 45 minutes. The rate of child malnutrition also remains one of the highest in the world, with around half of the country's children stunted.