A Quantitative Analysis of the Bangladesh Legislative Corpus
The Institute of Policy Dynamics (IPD) indexed 1,652 statutory instruments from bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd by topic, era, and status. Thirty-five analyses cover topic grouping, repeal dynamics, citation networks, survival curves, ordinance lifecycles, drafting linguistics, amendment journeys, and cross-lingual legal tropes — measured natively in both English and Bengali.
Topic Overview
Volume & repeal rate in one view
Left: each row = a topic, bar = active (blue) + repealed (red). Right: dot = repeal rate %; green <10%, amber 10–25%, red >25%. Dotted line = corpus average (19.4%). Read left-to-right: big + red-dot = large AND volatile.
Repeal Rate by Topic
Which policy domains shed the most laws · click a bar to see the laws inside
Among domains large enough for a stable rate (n ≥ 50), Health & Social Welfare (30.9%) and Education & Research (28.9%) shed the most, followed by Constitutional & Governance (24.3%); the corpus average is 19.4%. Finance, Banking & Tax is the most durable large domain at 9.8% across 336 laws. Information & Technology and Local Government post 40% but on only 25 and 20 laws, where a handful of repeals moves the rate several points. Click any bar to see the laws in that topic.
Topic × Era Heatmap
Where repeal pressure was concentrated
Each cell = % of laws in that topic-era pair that have been repealed. Dark red = high pressure. Restricting to cells with at least 20 instruments, the densest is Admin & Miscellaneous × Early Bangladesh (1971–90) at 59% — the martial-law and single-party ordinance output of the 1970s–80s being cleared away by later parliaments.