How do labour force participation, unemployment, youth unemployment and NEET, employment by sector and status, and informal employment compare across the divisions, and which divisions lag?

Labour force surveys. Part of what the twin can answer. Every figure below is the value the route serves, with its source; the raw response is at /api/twin/brain/labour.

Descriptive, sourced: no model

Basis: sourced records (URL, sha256 or locator per row), no model.

Printed report values are served verbatim with table id and printed page; where the prints hold no division figures, microdata estimates with the survey weights are served, anchored to the prints by the build's checks. Rates, shares, ranks and trends are computed in code from stored values. Division-level only.

The 2013, 2015-16 and 2016-17 rounds print 7 divisions: Mymensingh did not exist as a division and their Dhaka includes today's Mymensingh. The 2022 round prints 8. Division trends before 2022 therefore compare the 7-division geography; Mymensingh appears from 2022 only.

Labour force participation rate 15+, 2022: highest division, Rangpur (computed): 68.92%; Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied
Labour force participation rate 15+, 2022: lowest division, Mymensingh (computed): 56.54%; Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied
Unemployment rate 15+, 2022: highest division, Khulna (computed): 4.89%; Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied
Youth (15-29) unemployment rate, 2022: highest division, Mymensingh (computed): 11.85%; Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Labour force participation by division

Labour force participation rate 15+ by division, 2022 (percent of working age population 15+)

Division	Value	Rank	Printed or computed
Rangpur	Value: 68.92%	Rank: 1

Unemployment by division

Unemployment rate 15+ by division, 2022 (percent of labour force 15+)

Division	Value	Rank	Printed or computed
Rajshahi	Value: 2.12%	Rank: 1	Printed or computed: computed

Youth unemployment by division

Youth (15-29) unemployment rate by division, 2022 (percent of youth labour force 15-29)

Division	Value	Rank	Printed or computed
Rajshahi	Value: 5.61%	Rank: 1	Printed or computed: computed

Informal employment by division

Informal employment share 15+ by division, 2022 (percent of employed 15+)

Division	Value	Rank	Printed or computed
Barishal	Value: 78.2%	Rank: 1	Printed or computed: printed

Young people not in employment, education or training

2015-16 is NEET 15+ as % of working age population 15+ (S107); 2022 is NEET youth 15-29 as % of youth working age population (9.6.1). The two are not comparable as a trend.

NEET youth 15-29, 2022: national rate: 22%; BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 9.6.1, p. 88
NEET youth 15-29, 2022: national count: 9,649 thousand; BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 9.6.1, p. 88

NEET 15+ by division, as printed in QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf

Division	Level	Value

Employment by broad sector

Employment by broad sector, 2022, thousands

Division	Level	Agriculture	Industry	Services	Total	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Agriculture: 1,952.9

Status in employment

Status in employment, 2022, thousands

Division	Level	Employee	Employer	Own-account	Contributing family	Others	Total	Printed or computed	Source
Barishal	Level:

Which divisions lag

A rank reading of the 2022 round: divisions holding the worst rank on one of the four headline measures. Not a causal claim.

Divisions holding the worst rank on a headline measure

Division	Lags on
Khulna	Lags on: Unemployment rate
Mymensingh	Lags on: Youth unemployment rate, LFPR lowest
Sylhet	Lags on:

The bodies behind these figures

Registry bodies

Body	Short	Type
Ministry of Labour and Employment	Short: MOLE	Type: ministry
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics	Short: BBS	Type: autonomous

Where these figures come from

The source collections

Source	Dataset	File	Caveat
Bangladesh Quarterly Labour Force Survey 2015-16 report (BBS), annex tables S162, S97, S64, S65, S107 (S92 cross-checked)	Dataset: LFS division figures	File: QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf	Caveat: not available
Bangladesh Labour Force Survey 2022 report (BBS), tables 43, 45, 6.5.1, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 8.3.1, 9.4.1, 9.6.1 and the trend-chart data labels of figures 5.5/5.6 and 8.7

Not held

District figures: The LFS is division-level; no district breakdown exists in the held rounds, printed or microdata.
NEET by division, 2022: The 2022 report prints NEET nationally only (table 9.6.1); a reproduction from the stored 2022 reissue microdata did not match the printed national figure, so no division NEET is served for 2022. Division NEET is served for 2015-16 as printed (table S107).
Quarterly LFS 2023 and 2024: The stored report PDFs for the 2023 and 2024 quarterly rounds (labour_force_survey_2023.pdf, labour_force_survey_2024.pdf) carry no extractable text in the store; no figures are served from them.
Informal employment before 2022: The older held reports do not print informal-employment tables by division; informal figures are 2022 only (tables 7.3.1, 7.3.2).
Rounds before 2013: No earlier LFS round is held in the store.
National labour aggregates and urban labour: National labour force series belong to the people brain and urban labour to the urban brain; this route links to them instead of repeating them.

Informal employment share 15+, 2022: highest division, Sylhet (printed)

BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 7.3.2, p. 64

NEET youth 15-29, 2022: national rate (divisions withheld)

22%

BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 9.6.1, p. 88

Printed report values held, all rounds

331

Microdata estimates held, all rounds

378

Printed or computed:

Source: Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Labour force participation rate 15+: national, every held round

Round	Value	Printed or computed	Source
2013	Value: 57.1%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 5.5/5.6, p. 43
2015-16	Value: 58.53%	Printed or computed: computed	Source: Computed from QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf, Table S162, p. 249
2016-17	Value: 58.2%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 5.5/5.6, p. 43
2022	Value: 61.2%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 45, p. 185

Labour force participation rate 15+ by division, every held round

Division	Round	Value	Printed or computed
Barishal	Round: 2013	Value: 54.79%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2013	Value: 57.76%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2013	Value: 58.81%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2013	Value: 53.07%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2013	Value: 57.79%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2013	Value: 55.75%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2013	Value: 56.28%	Printed or computed: computed
Barishal	Round: 2015-16	Value: 54.29%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2015-16	Value: 54.01%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2015-16	Value: 55.75%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2015-16	Value: 62.82%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2015-16	Value: 67.44%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2015-16	Value: 64.41%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2015-16	Value: 51.52%	Printed or computed: computed
Barishal	Round: 2016-17	Value: 52.71%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2016-17	Value: 55.2%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2016-17	Value: 57.33%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2016-17	Value: 58.73%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2016-17	Value: 66.37%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2016-17	Value: 62.27%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2016-17	Value: 49.77%	Printed or computed: computed
Barishal	Round: 2022	Value: 61.4%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2022	Value: 56.97%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2022	Value: 61.45%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2022	Value: 62.87%	Printed or computed: computed
Mymensingh	Round: 2022	Value: 56.54%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2022	Value: 62.28%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2022	Value: 68.92%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2022	Value: 58.75%	Printed or computed: computed

Source: Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Unemployment rate 15+: national, every held round

Round	Value	Printed or computed	Source
2013	Value: 4.3%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 8.7, p. 78
2015-16	Value: 4.2%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf, Table S97, p. 205
2016-17	Value: 4.2%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 8.7, p. 78
2022	Value: 3.53%	Printed or computed: printed	Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 8.3.1, p. 75

Unemployment rate 15+ by division, every held round

Division	Round	Value	Printed or computed
Barishal	Round: 2013	Value: 5.05%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2013	Value: 5.3%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2013	Value: 4.35%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2013	Value: 2.88%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2013	Value: 2.19%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2013	Value: 5.63%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2013	Value: 4.86%	Printed or computed: computed
Barishal	Round: 2015-16	Value: 4.4%	Printed or computed: printed
Chattogram	Round: 2015-16	Value: 4.5%	Printed or computed: printed
Dhaka	Round: 2015-16	Value: 3.3%	Printed or computed: printed
Khulna	Round: 2015-16	Value: 3.8%	Printed or computed: printed
Rajshahi	Round: 2015-16	Value: 3%	Printed or computed: printed
Rangpur	Round: 2015-16	Value: 8%	Printed or computed: printed
Sylhet	Round: 2015-16	Value: 3.1%	Printed or computed: printed
Barishal	Round: 2016-17	Value: 5.44%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2016-17	Value: 3.45%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2016-17	Value: 3.38%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2016-17	Value: 4.1%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2016-17	Value: 4.59%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2016-17	Value: 6.86%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2016-17	Value: 3.56%	Printed or computed: computed
Barishal	Round: 2022	Value: 4.13%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Round: 2022	Value: 3.02%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Round: 2022	Value: 3.48%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Round: 2022	Value: 4.89%	Printed or computed: computed
Mymensingh	Round: 2022	Value: 4.66%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Round: 2022	Value: 2.12%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Round: 2022	Value: 3.62%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Round: 2022	Value: 4.1%	Printed or computed: computed

Source: Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Youth (15-29) unemployment rate: national, every held round

Round	Value	Printed or computed
2022	Value: 8.01%	Printed or computed: computed

Source: Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 7.3.2, p. 64

Informal employment share 15+: national, every held round

Round	Value	Printed or computed
2022	Value: 84.9%	Printed or computed: printed

Source: BGD LFS 2022 Report.pdf, Table 7.3.2, p. 64

Source: QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf, Table S107, p. 211

Source: Computed from LFS 2013, QLFS 2016-17 and QLFS 2022 (2025 reissue) microdata, stored parquets, survey weights applied

Employment by broad sector, 2022, shares of employed

Division	Level	Agriculture	Industry	Services	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Agriculture: 50.3%	Industry: 13.7%	Services: 36%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Agriculture: 47.1%	Industry: 13.8%	Services: 39.1%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Agriculture: 28.6%	Industry: 26.1%	Services: 45.3%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Level: Division	Agriculture: 51.3%	Industry: 13%	Services: 35.7%	Printed or computed: computed
Mymensingh	Level: Division	Agriculture: 53.5%	Industry: 13.4%	Services: 33.1%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Agriculture: 55.3%	Industry: 13.9%	Services: 30.8%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Agriculture: 51.9%	Industry: 13.4%	Services: 34.7%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Agriculture: 54.2%	Industry: 14.8%	Services: 31%	Printed or computed: computed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Agriculture: 45.3%	Industry: 17%	Services: 37.7%	Printed or computed: computed

Employment by broad sector, in the earlier held round, thousands

Division	Level	Agriculture	Industry	Services	Total	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Agriculture: 1,396	Industry: 521	Services: 1,083	Total: 3,000	Printed or computed: printed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Agriculture: 4,149	Industry: 1,857	Services: 3,614	Total: 9,620	Printed or computed: printed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Agriculture: 5,581	Industry: 5,484	Services: 8,464	Total: 19,529	Printed or computed: printed
Khulna	Level: Division	Agriculture: 3,620	Industry: 1,127	Services: 2,611	Total: 7,358	Printed or computed: printed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Agriculture: 5,128	Industry: 1,712	Services: 2,715	Total: 9,555	Printed or computed: printed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Agriculture: 3,997	Industry: 1,039	Services: 2,220	Total: 7,256	Printed or computed: printed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Agriculture: 1,528	Industry: 439	Services: 1,245	Total: 3,212	Printed or computed: printed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Agriculture: 25,398	Industry: 12,180	Services: 21,952	Total: 59,530	Printed or computed: printed

Source: QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf, Table S64, p. 184

Employment by broad sector, in the earlier held round, shares of employed

Division	Level	Agriculture	Industry	Services	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Agriculture: 46.5%	Industry: 17.4%	Services: 36.1%	Printed or computed: printed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Agriculture: 43.1%	Industry: 19.3%	Services: 37.6%	Printed or computed: printed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Agriculture: 28.6%	Industry: 28.1%	Services: 43.3%	Printed or computed: printed
Khulna	Level: Division	Agriculture: 49.2%	Industry: 15.3%	Services: 35.5%	Printed or computed: printed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Agriculture: 53.7%	Industry: 17.9%	Services: 28.4%	Printed or computed: printed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Agriculture: 55.1%	Industry: 14.3%	Services: 30.6%	Printed or computed: printed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Agriculture: 47.6%	Industry: 13.7%	Services: 38.8%	Printed or computed: printed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Agriculture: 42.7%	Industry: 20.5%	Services: 36.9%	Printed or computed: printed

Status in employment, 2022, shares of employed

Division	Level	Employee	Employer	Own-account	Contributing family	Others	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Employee: 30.3%	Employer: 9.2%	Own-account: 57.7%	Contributing family: 2.3%	Others: 0.4%	Printed or computed: computed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Employee: 34.4%	Employer: 2.6%	Own-account: 57.3%	Contributing family: 4.7%	Others: 1%	Printed or computed: computed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Employee: 48%	Employer: 3.6%	Own-account: 40.9%	Contributing family: 6.7%	Others: 0.8%	Printed or computed: computed
Khulna	Level: Division	Employee: 33.5%	Employer: 7%	Own-account: 51.8%	Contributing family: 6.7%	Others: 0.9%	Printed or computed: computed
Mymensingh	Level: Division	Employee: 31.4%	Employer: 2.9%	Own-account: 61.5%	Contributing family: 3.8%	Others: 0.4%	Printed or computed: computed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Employee: 33.3%	Employer: 1.7%	Own-account: 54.1%	Contributing family: 10.6%	Others: 0.4%	Printed or computed: computed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Employee: 37.9%	Employer: 3.6%	Own-account: 44.9%	Contributing family: 12.3%	Others: 1.2%	Printed or computed: computed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Employee: 38.2%	Employer: 2.7%	Own-account: 50.9%	Contributing family: 7.4%	Others: 0.9%	Printed or computed: computed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Employee: 38.1%	Employer: 3.8%	Own-account: 50.6%	Contributing family: 6.8%	Others: 0.8%	Printed or computed: printed

Status in employment, in the earlier held round, thousands

Division	Level	Employee	Employer	Own-account	Contributing family	Others	Total	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Employee: 918	Employer: 79	Own-account: 1,461	Contributing family: 517	Others: 23	Total: 2,998	Printed or computed: printed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Employee: 3,322	Employer: 168	Own-account: 4,548	Contributing family: 1,501	Others: 81	Total: 9,620	Printed or computed: printed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Employee: 9,338	Employer: 701	Own-account: 7,375	Contributing family: 2,048	Others: 68	Total: 19,530	Printed or computed: printed
Khulna	Level: Division	Employee: 2,413	Employer: 232	Own-account: 3,457	Contributing family: 1,212	Others: 45	Total: 7,359	Printed or computed: printed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Employee: 3,103	Employer: 116	Own-account: 4,636	Contributing family: 1,687	Others: 12	Total: 9,554	Printed or computed: printed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Employee: 3,028	Employer: 169	Own-account: 2,846	Contributing family: 1,184	Others: 29	Total: 7,256	Printed or computed: printed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Employee: 1,168	Employer: 156	Own-account: 1,419	Contributing family: 465	Others: 5	Total: 3,213	Printed or computed: printed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Employee: 23,290	Employer: 1,621	Own-account: 25,743	Contributing family: 8,614	Others: 262	Total: 59,530	Printed or computed: printed

Source: QLFS 2015-16 report.pdf, Table S65, p. 185

Status in employment, in the earlier held round, shares of employed

Division	Level	Employee	Employer	Own-account	Contributing family	Others	Printed or computed
Barishal	Level: Division	Employee: 30.6%	Employer: 2.6%	Own-account: 48.7%	Contributing family: 17.2%	Others: 0.8%	Printed or computed: printed
Chattogram	Level: Division	Employee: 34.5%	Employer: 1.7%	Own-account: 47.3%	Contributing family: 15.6%	Others: 0.8%	Printed or computed: printed
Dhaka	Level: Division	Employee: 47.8%	Employer: 3.6%	Own-account: 37.8%	Contributing family: 10.5%	Others: 0.3%	Printed or computed: printed
Khulna	Level: Division	Employee: 32.8%	Employer: 3.2%	Own-account: 47%	Contributing family: 16.5%	Others: 0.6%	Printed or computed: printed
Rajshahi	Level: Division	Employee: 32.5%	Employer: 1.2%	Own-account: 48.5%	Contributing family: 17.7%	Others: 0.1%	Printed or computed: printed
Rangpur	Level: Division	Employee: 41.7%	Employer: 2.3%	Own-account: 39.2%	Contributing family: 16.3%	Others: 0.4%	Printed or computed: printed
Sylhet	Level: Division	Employee: 36.4%	Employer: 4.9%	Own-account: 44.2%	Contributing family: 14.5%	Others: 0.2%	Printed or computed: printed
Bangladesh	Level: National	Employee: 39.1%	Employer: 2.7%	Own-account: 43.2%	Contributing family: 14.5%	Others: 0.4%	Printed or computed: printed