Bangladesh Energy - 2023

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 98.9% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 99.7% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 98.5% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 18.461 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 76,849,877,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 6.786 billion kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 9.537 billion kWh (2019 est.)

comparison rankings: installed generating capacity 51; consumption 39; exports 201; imports 34; transmission/distribution losses 35

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 98.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 0.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 0.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Nuclear energy

Number of operational nuclear reactors: 0

Number of nuclear reactors under construction: 2 (2023)

Net capacity of operational nuclear reactors: 0GW

Percent of total electricity production: 0%

Percent of total energy produced: 0%

Number of nuclear reactors permanently shut down: 0

Coal

production: 1.016 million metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 9.345 million metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 8.329 million metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 293 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 13,500 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 122,500 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 21,600 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 28 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

26,280 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

901 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

81,570 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 28,629,927,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 31,268,968,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

imports: 2,639,041,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

proven reserves: 126.293 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

96.18 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 16.538 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 18.535 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 61.107 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

9.917 million Btu/person (2019 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Bangladesh on this page is re-published from the 2023 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bangladesh 2023 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bangladesh 2023 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.