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Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics

department · verified (verified 2026-05-17)

Profile

Head
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman
Role
Director General
Annual budget
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Staff
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Established
1974
Legal basis
Statistics Act 2013 (Parishankhyan Ain 2013), enacted 27 February 2013 by the National Parliament; BBS established August 1974 by merging four predecessor offices: the Bureau of Statistics, the Bureau of Agriculture Statistics, the Agriculture Census Commission, and the Population Census Commission

BBS is actively publishing monthly CPI data (April 2026: 9.04%, March 2026: 8.71%), released the Q1 FY2025-26 ICT Access and Use Survey with first-ever district-level ICT estimates in April 2026, and published the final FY2024-25 GDP growth figure of 3.49% in February 2026; BBS is under a government-mandated reorganisation commitment announced April 2026, with an expert taskforce (chaired by PPRC) reviewing data quality and institutional structure.

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Provenance & notes

BBS is the national statistical office (NSO) of Bangladesh, operating as a department under the Statistics and Informatics Division (SID), which in turn is under the Ministry of Planning. parent_id_ref is 'Statistics and Informatics Division' (slug: statistics-and-informatics-division). BBS was established in August 1974 by merging four predecessor offices and received its formal statutory footing under the Statistics Act 2013. Director General Mohammed Mizanur Rahman (15th BCS Administration Cadre, 1995; BSc and MSc Statistics, Chittagong University; MSc Economic and Financial Forecasting, UK) assumed charge on 22 October 2023 per the official BBS office-head page (bbs.portal.gov.bd). staff_count is null: no publicly available sanctioned-post figure was found in primary sources; the ~1,500 figure circulating in secondary sources lacks a primary document citation and is excluded. annual_budget_bdt is null: BBS budget is embedded in the SID/Ministry of Planning envelope and not separately published. GDP: the provisional FY2024-25 estimate (3.97%, released May 2025) was revised to a final 3.49% (released February 26, 2026); both are BBS outputs. CPI April 2026 figure (9.04%) and March 2026 figure (8.71%) are confirmed by The Daily Star, Jagonews24, Fibre2Fashion, TradingEconomics, and Bangladesh Bank -- all citing BBS as the primary source. ICT survey release date (April 16, 2026) confirmed by BSS News and TBS News. BBS reorganisation commitment (April 13, 2026) confirmed by Outlook Bangla (citing BSS wire) and the official BSS news release. Verification based on 2+ independent primary sources for all factual claims.

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