The overall rate of inflation remained almost unchanged as it persisted over 9 per cent in March, while the gross domestic product growth bounced back in the second quarter of the current financial year of 2024鈥�25...
AMID growing income inequality, high unemployment rates and unprecedented food inflation, economists have rightly pointed out that the budget for the next financial year should prioritise the economic woes of the ordinary people. Economists in a pre-budget meeting with the finance adviser on March 16 urged the government to create an enabling investment...
The country鈥檚 gross domestic product growth for the 2023-2024 financial year was 4.22 per cent, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics鈥� update released on Monday...
THE growth of the number of economic units in the services sector by 56 per cent, to 10.83 million units in 2024 from about 6.91 million units in 2013, as the preliminary findings of the Economic Census 2024 that the Bureau of Statistics made public on January 29 show, is encouraging. But what remains worrisome is that the growth in the number of...
The country鈥檚 service sector-based units grew more than manufacturing units over the past one decade that was also marked by a decrease in female employment...
The annual general meeting-2024 and reunion of the Jahangirnagar University Statistics Department Alumni Association has recently held at Sripur in Gazipur, said a press release on Tuesday...
AN INCREASE in the number of unemployed people in the July-September quarter in 2024 compared with the figure of the corresponding period of 2023 is alarming. The Bureau of Statistics, which has for the first time applied the definition set at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians 鈥� which considers people unemployed if they do not work...
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics on Monday at a press conference announced that it would begin Bangladesh Economic Census 2024 today across the country to gain a detailed perception about the structural changes in the country鈥檚 economy...
FOR most women, going out of the house requires a lot of planning. From crowded streets and public transport to workplaces, the challenges that women face in staying safe are constant and exhausting. Citizens now call for women鈥檚 safety on the road and in public spaces. Everyone wants change. Women want to walk without the fear of being harassed or attacked...
The upward trend in inflation continued as it went up further to 11.38 per cent in November on the back of price hikes of food items in both rural and urban areas.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to begin the public opinion survey countrywide on the constitution reform today...
The constitution reform commission would soon launch a nation-wide survey with the help of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics to get public opinion...
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics is going to begin the economic census next month and one of the major aims of the census is, for the first time, to determine the number of foreign workers in the country.
THE interim government鈥檚 institution of expert committees to check against any discrepancy in national data, which came to be seriously questioned as being doctored during the Awami League government that was overthrown on August 5, is a good step forward. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics officials say that they have already set up the committees to...
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics will take approval from experts to ensure data accuracy before making national data public in a bid to overcome the disrepute it had earned for alleged data...
The general point-to-point inflation rate eased further last month as it reached 9.92 per cent in September down from 10.49 per cent in August, 2024 due to downtrend in both food and non-food inflation...
The Asian Development Bank, in its latest outlook, has projected that inflation in Bangladesh will rise to 10.1 per cent in the fiscal year 2024-25, a significant increase of 3.1 percentage points from its previous estimate made in April.
THE Bureau of Statistics has come to be criticised and its calculation of nationally, and internationally, important figures questioned for years during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League, overthrown on August 5 through a student-mass uprising, for the manipulation of data that has been nothing short of deceit...
The overall inflation in August eased, but still prevailed at a double-digit level for the second consecutive month.
More students in the country go to Qoumi madrassahs than to the government-registered Aliya madrassahs, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics reports...
THE US economy appears to be precariously perched on the brink of recession. The stock market鈥檚 recent plunge reflects heightened recession fears, further exacerbated by a bleak jobs report. On August 2, the US Bureau of Labour Statistics unveiled that non-farm employment rose by a mere 114,000 in July, marking the lowest increase since...
Around 17.28 per cent Bangladeshi expatriates returned home voluntarily after quitting their jobs overseas during the past five years...
Planning minister major general (retired) Abdus Salam on Tuesday asked the concerned officials to strengthen further the statistics and informatics division through working with honesty and transparency imbued with patriotism...
The overall inflation in June eased at 9.72 per cent, but the food inflation still persisted at over 10 per cent for the third consecutive month amid price spiral of...
THE average inflation in the outgoing financial year surpassing the average inflation in the past financial year, which was a decade-high, shows the inefficiency and inadequacy of measures taken by the government to contain inflation. The overall 12-month average inflation has been recorded by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics at 9.73 per cent...
BANGLADESH鈥橲 identity as primarily an agricultural nation underscores the pivotal role of its farming sectors in driving economic prosperity. Therefore, fostering a profitable, sustainable, and eco-friendly agricultural framework is imperative to safeguarding long-term food security for...
Loan disbursements from Shariah-based banks have significantly increased despite a sharp decline in deposit collection in December and January...
THE food inflation that has remained high for more than two years now reached double digits once again in April after a gap of four months. The Bureau of Statistics in its monthly update says that food inflation was 10.22 per cent in April. The surge was, as economists...
THE police detention of 13 protesters who were demanding an increase in the age limit to apply for government jobs is unacceptable. The law enforcers detained the protesters after foiling their demonstrations in the Shahbagh crossing in the...
AN INCREASE in unemployment rate has become a major cause of concern while unemployment and under-employment have for long been indicators of jobless growth. The Bureau of Statistics, in its quarterly labour force survey, made public...