Bangladesh ranks in the top ten producers of 8 commodities: jute (#1, 56% of world output in 2024), rice (#3, 7.4% of world output in 2024), ginger (#7, 1.7% of world output in 2024), mangoes (#7, 3.4% of world output in 2024), potatoes (#7, 2.7% of world output in 2024), lentils (#8, 2.3% of world output in 2024) and more. It is a top-ten exporter of jute (#1, 69% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
What does Bangladesh produce?
Commodities where Bangladesh is a top-ten producer
Bangladesh's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Bangladesh's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Bangladesh dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Bangladesh's own $584.2 million of tracked exports, not by world trade. Shrimp alone is 48% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Bangladesh compares with other countries.
Commodities where Bangladesh is a top-ten exporter
Ginger: #3, 8.1% of world imports, $105.5 million (2024)
Chickpeas: #4, 7.8% of world imports, $191.5 million (2024)
Feldspar: #4, 5% of world imports, $33.8 million (2024)
Cardamom: #6, 3.6% of world imports, $44.5 million (2024)
Cloves: #8, 2.6% of world imports, $17 million (2024)
Palm oil: #8, 3% of world imports, $1.3 billion (2024)
Cinnamon: #9, 2.1% of world imports, $17.3 million (2024)
Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.
Bangladesh commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Bangladesh is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Bangladesh, computed from the same data as this page.
What Bangladesh uses
Bangladesh had about 171 million people and a food supply of 2,588 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Bangladesh, 2023
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.
Who supplies Bangladesh
Single-supplier markets. Bangladesh buys half or more of its imports from one country in 8 of 11 import markets of $250 million or more, among them phosphate fertilizers from Morocco (59%, $1.8 billion); palm oil from Indonesia (73%, $1.3 billion); coal from Indonesia (93%, $1.1 billion); soybeans from Brazil (53%, $896 million); sugar from Brazil (87%, $870 million); wheat from Canada (53%, $692 million). Import dependency.
Suppliers gaining. Brazil in sugar (47% to 87%, +40 points).
Suppliers losing. India in wheat (54% to <0.1%, −54 points); India in sugar (53% to 10%, −42 points).
Downloads and citation
This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Bangladesh produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/BGD/ (CC BY 4.0).
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