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Bangladesh

Headline economic indicators for Bangladesh, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 8.8% -1.70 (-16.2%)
Consumer price index · 285.0 +22.98 (+8.8%)
GDP deflator inflation · 6.5% -0.36 (-5.2%)

GDP

GDP — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 3.5% -0.73 (-17.4%)
GDP per capita · 2,597.34 +3.93 (+0.2%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 4,926 +241.72 (+5.2%)
GDP · 456,319,229,255.58 +6,199,797,187 (+1.4%)
GDP, PPP · 1,783,873,538,489 +107,125,788,137 (+6.4%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 10,154 +492.93 (+5.1%)
GDP per capita growth · 2.2% -0.73 (-24.5%)
GNI per capita · 2,840 +20.00 (+0.7%)
Agriculture to GDP · 11.4% +0.26 (+2.3%)
Industry to GDP · 34.0% -0.07 (-0.2%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 22.4% +0.55 (+2.5%)
Services to GDP · 52.1% +0.72 (+1.4%)
Household consumption to GDP · 72.2% +2.09 (+3.0%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 28.5% -2.16 (-7.0%)
Gross savings to GDP · 34.8% +0.43 (+1.3%)

Labour

Labour — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 3.8% +0.14 (+3.9%)
Labour force participation rate · 58.8% -0.11 (-0.2%)
Female labour force participation rate · 38.6% -0.06 (-0.2%)
Youth unemployment rate · 9.4% +0.29 (+3.2%)
Employment to population ratio · 56.6% -0.19 (-0.3%)
Employment in agriculture · 44.3% -0.48 (-1.1%)
Employment in industry · 18.0% +0.14 (+0.8%)
Employment in services · 37.7% +0.33 (+0.9%)

Money

Money — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 2.0% -0.81 (-29.1%)
Broad money to GDP · 47.9% -0.94 (-1.9%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 34.5% -1.31 (-3.6%)
Lending rate · 8.6% -1.23 (-12.5%)
Bank deposit rate · 9.4% +0.83 (+9.8%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 5.7% -13.79 (-70.6%)
Bank nonperforming loans · 19.0% +9.39 (+98.1%)
Official exchange rate · 121.92 +6.32 (+5.5%)

Trade

Trade — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · -0.0% +0.62 (+93.3%)
Exports to GDP · 11.1% +0.65 (+6.3%)
Imports to GDP · 16.8% +0.52 (+3.2%)
Trade to GDP · 28.0% +1.17 (+4.4%)
Exports of goods and services · 50,724,940,945.21 +3,637,101,701 (+7.7%)
Imports of goods and services · 76,818,948,730.22 +3,373,465,246 (+4.6%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · -28,482,230,325.19 -2,736,799,718 (-10.6%)
Current account balance (annual) · -203,162,133.86 +2,810,237,160 (+93.3%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 0.4% +0.11 (+37.8%)
Remittances received to GDP · 7.4% +1.31 (+21.4%)
Total reserves, including gold · 28,562,651,500.74 +7,167,855,768 (+33.5%)
Reserves in months of imports · 3.9 +0.84 (+27.3%)
External debt to GNI · 22.3% -0.03 (-0.1%)

Government

Government — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 31.2% -0.66 (-2.1%)
Government revenue to GDP · 9.5% +0.90 (+10.4%)
Government expense to GDP · 8.3% +0.18 (+2.2%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 7.6% +0.64 (+9.2%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -2.8% +1.13 (+28.5%)
Government consumption to GDP · 5.8% -0.11 (-1.8%)
Education spending to GDP · 2.0% -0.13 (-5.9%)
Health spending to GDP · 2.2% -0.05 (-2.0%)

Demography

Demography — Bangladesh
Indicator Value Change
Population · 175,686,899 +2,124,535 (+1.2%)
Population, long-run history · 174,217 +1,863 (+1.1%)
Population growth · 1.2% +0.00 (+0.2%)
Life expectancy · 74.9 +0.26 (+0.3%)
Fertility rate · 2.14 -0.02 (-1.2%)
Birth rate · 20.0 -0.37 (-1.8%)
Death rate · 5.1 +0.10 (+1.9%)
Urban population share · 33.2% +0.56 (+1.7%)
Population aged 65 and over · 6.7% +0.17 (+2.6%)
Under-five mortality rate · 30.5 -0.10 (-0.3%)
Population density · 1,333.4 +16.10 (+1.2%)
Net migration · -402,100 +71,262 (+15.1%)
Gini index · 30.9 -1.50 (-4.6%)

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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