BANGLADESH has since the early 2020s enjoyed demographic dividend as 65.08 per cent of its population falls in the working age population group, according to a report published by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics in 2023. Demographic dividend depicts the economic growth potential that arises when a country鈥檚 working age population, people aged 15鈥�65 years...
THE government task force identifying external and political interference and aid dependency as reasons for the poor performance of the Bureau of Statistics corroborates what independent experts have for long said. The national statistical office has largely failed to live up to its mandate for being plagued by interference. The task force, formed in April 2025 against the...
External interference and aid dependency have affected the independence of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics seriously over the past two decades, said a government task force report released on Monday...
Election commissioner Tahmida Ahmad on Sunday stated that Bangladesh鈥檚 current population stood at 19 crore, according to data collected by the Election Commission while preparing its voter list.
An Independent Taskforce on Strengthening Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Monday recommended reforms to transform the agency into a modern and trusted national statistical organisation and rebranding it as Statistics Bangladesh (StatBD)...
Dhaka division has the highest unemployed people of 6.87 lakh people Mymensingh division the least unemployed people of 1.04 lakh, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics...
The value of women鈥檚 unpaid household work is Tk聽5,70,000 crore, said the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday...
The country鈥檚 potato production in the financial year 2024-25 witnessed a record high of 1.15 crore tonnes, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics report...
Bangladesh鈥檚 general inflation slightly rose to 8.55 per cent in July 2025 from 8.48 per cent a month earlier, driven largely by higher food prices, according to the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)...
The general inflation eased further and dropped from the 9 per cent mark to 8.48 per cent in June because of falling prices of food items...
A GRADUAL loss of agricultural land poses a threat to food security. A Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics survey report says that farmland has been eroded by 3.75 per cent over eight years. The survey, covering 2015鈥�2023 and highlighting some critical environmental and climate issues, says that a lack of commitment to saving farmland and rapid, unplanned urbanisation...
THE Bureau of Statistics quarterly update on labour force shows an increase in unemployed people to 2.73 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 compared with 2.4 million in the corresponding period of 2023. The document, made public on May 18, also shows a decline in the overall work force to 69.1 million in the 2024 October-December quarter from 71.1 million...
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...
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.
