New BBS survey reveals alarming prevalence of intimate partner abuse
The growth is 1.6 percentage points lower than the provisional estimate
Greater efforts needed to level up poorer regions like Barishal and Rangpur
Accurate data vital for sound policymaking
Creating new jobs requires increased investments and the establishment of new businesses.
For proper policymaking, there is no alternative to reliable data
BBS must be overhauled to ensure that it provides accurate data
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics releases data today
Rangpur has the highest number of mobile financial services (MFS) accounts among the eight divisions of Bangladesh, with 28.10 percent of its population utilising these services. Barisal follows closely, with 24.26 percent of its residents holding MFS accounts, according to the report on Socio-Economic and Demographic Survey 2023, recently published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Inflation followed by greedflation followed by shrinkflation – is there no way out of this trap?
The state statistics agency will publish the GDP data from the first quarter of 2024
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) last week finally made public its estimate of the amount of Boro season paddy produced in the country last year, which sadly will come to little effect as farmers will be harvesting this year’s crops within a month or so.
With the soaring inflation rate in recent times, the importance of effective public food distribution cannot be emphasised enough.
Bangladesh's per capita income stood at $2,793 in fiscal 2021-22 -- $31 lower than the initial estimate as the steep depreciation of the taka messed up the government’s numbers.
Digital inclusion still elusive for many citizens
A total of 97.4 per cent households have mobile phones in the country, but 63.1 per cent of them do not feel the need to use internet, according to the preliminary report of a national survey.
Women in Bangladesh spend about 25 percent of their time daily on unpaid care work while men spend 3.3 percent of their time on the same.
An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.
Bangladesh is wasting its once-in-a-lifetime window of demographic dividend -- the economic growth potential that can result from a peak in working-age people -- due to its inability to create jobs.
