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The State of Bangladesh Remittances

Tracing the macroeconomic lifeline of 10 million overseas Bangladeshi workers across the Gulf and Southeast Asia: formal banking channels versus the informal Hundi spread, corridor dynamics, and rural household investment.

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Remittances into Bangladesh reached 27.5 billion dollars in the latest year of the record, up from 1.3 billion at the end of the nineties.

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Remittances into Bangladesh reached 27.5 billion dollars in the latest year of the record, up from 1.3 billion at the end of the nineties.

That is a rise of +1947.0 percent across the years the chart covers, and the series sets a new high in its final year.

The latest year alone added +24.7 percent, worth 6.1 percent of gross domestic product.

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Primary Sources 6 Citations

[1] World Bank ['ch1', 'ch3', 'ch4', 'ch5']

World Development Indicators remittance inflows (BX.TRF.PWKR.CD.DT), remittance share of GDP (BX.TRF.PWKR.DT.GD.ZS), net FDI inflows (BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD), population, current account (BN.CAB.XOKA.CD) and reserves (FI.RES.TOTL.CD), the five peer-country series, and the Migration and Development Brief 2023 informal-share estimate

https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators

[2] Bangladesh Bank ['ch2']

Annual Report 2023-24 destination shares behind the ten-country corridor table the film's corridor breakdown speaks

https://www.bb.org.bd/

[3] Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training ['ch2']

Annual Statistics worker deployment by year, 2010 to 2024, and the 2024 corridor shares

https://www.bmet.gov.bd

[4] International Organization for Migration ['ch2', 'ch5']

IOM estimates behind the Gulf to non-Gulf corridor shift, and the 2023 recruitment-cost figures for four of the five countries in the table the film averages

https://www.iom.int/

[5] Department of Migrant Workers (formerly POEA), Philippines ['ch5']

Recruitment cost for the Philippines, cited as POEA 2023 in the five-country table whose average the film speaks

https://dmw.gov.ph

[6] fawazahmed0/currency-api ['ch4']

USD/BDT rate, series usd_bdt_rate, the authority-1 series for the exchange_rate concept, attributed currency_api by its collector and not a Bangladesh Bank figure

https://github.com/fawazahmed0/exchange-api