Economy

GDP and growth rate

At a current price, the GDP size of Bangladesh touches BDT 25 trillion marks while the growth rate shows a positive trend in the last 7 years. Its growth rate jumped to over an 8% benchmark in FY19. Due to COVID shock, the growth rate fell down to 5% in the last fiscal year.

GDP per capita

Presenting a sharp increase in per capita GDP. It crosses BDT 150 thousand benchmarks. Over BDT 30 thousand increased over the last two fiscal years. This gives such a strong capacity of the economy for investment.

Public and Private Investment

An increasing trend of public investment is withness while private investment growth is not promising in comparison. It reveals that huge investment from the public sector shirking the investment fund shortage for the private sector or bank and other financial institutions feel secure to invest in the government-controlled projects.