Bangladesh
BGD · 2024 energy mix · renewables 1.1% · fossil fuels 98.9%
Threat reading 29 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, HOLDING. 0 events recorded here in the last seven days, 0 in the last thirty.
That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.
Where its energy comes from
| Gas | 51.7% |
|---|---|
| Oil | 30.3% |
| Coal | 16.9% |
| Solar | 0.6% |
| Hydro | 0.5% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 1.1% and fossil fuels for 98.9%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Bangladesh is close to balanced on electricity trade.
Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.
Recorded history
NOAA's hazard records hold 17 significant earthquakes and one tsunami in or just off Bangladesh since 1762.
The deadliest was the 2 April 1762 earthquake (Bangladesh: Chittagong, Dacca, Arracan), which killed 200 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 7.6, on 8 July 1918 (Bangladesh: Srimangal).
The most recent entry is the 21 November 2025 magnitude 5.4 earthquake (Bangladesh: Dhaka, Narsingdi), which killed 10 people.
Across the entries that record a death toll, 390 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 April 1762 | earthquake | Bangladesh: Chittagong, Dacca, Arracan | 200 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 14 July 1885 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Bangladesh: | 75 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 9 September 1923 | magnitude 6.9 earthquake | Bangladesh: Mymensingh | 50 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 18 March 2012 | magnitude 4.5 earthquake | Bangladesh: Dhaka | 44 dead |
| 21 November 2025 | magnitude 5.4 earthquake | Bangladesh: Dhaka, Narsingdi | 10 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 22 July 1999 | magnitude 4.2 earthquake | Bangladesh: Maheshkhali Island, Cox's Bazaar | 6 dead, 700 homes destroyed, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 6 February 1988 | magnitude 5.8 earthquake | Bangladesh: Sylhet; India: Tipura-assam | 2 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 26 July 2003 | magnitude 5.7 earthquake | Bangladesh: Rangamati | 2 dead, 500 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 12 June 1989 | magnitude 5.1 earthquake | Bangladesh: Banaripara | 1 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 8 July 1918 | magnitude 7.6 earthquake | Bangladesh: Srimangal | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 30 June 1868 | magnitude 7.5 earthquake | Bangladesh: Sylhet | - |
| 11 November 1842 | magnitude 6.0 earthquake | Bangladesh: | damage under $1 million |
| 2 April 1762 | tsunami (waves to 1.8 m) | Northern Bay of Bengal | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 7 November 2007 | magnitude 5.1 earthquake | Bangladesh: Chittagong, Bandarban, Rangamati | damage under $1 million |
| 12 January 2008 | magnitude 5.0 earthquake | India-bangladesh: Rangamati, Bangladesh | damage under $1 million |
| 10 September 2010 | magnitude 4.8 earthquake | Bangladesh: Narayanganj | damage under $1 million |
| 20 June 2002 | magnitude 4.5 earthquake | Bangladesh: Rangpur, Thakurgaon, Almanagar | damage under $1 million |
| 19 December 2001 | magnitude 4.5 earthquake | Bangladesh: Dhaka | damage under $1 million |
A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.
Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.
In the last 30 days
Our feeds placed no events in Bangladesh in the last 30 days. That is a statement about the feeds we read, not proof that nothing happened.
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 11 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 15 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 34 |
| Natural hazard | 0 |
| Resilience | 60 |
Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.
Other countries tracked
Where the data comes from
Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.