Statistics and Informatics Division
Profile
- Head
- Aleya Akter
- Role
- Secretary
- Annual budget
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- Staff
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- Established
- 2012
- Legal basis
- Statistics Act 2013 (Parishankhyan Ain, 2013), enacted 27 February 2013; Statistics Division originally established July 1975 under Ministry of Planning, abolished 2002, recreated 2010, renamed Statistics and Informatics Division in 2012 under the Rules of Business 1996
SID and BBS are actively engaged in ongoing monthly CPI publication (latest: 9.04% in April 2026), the ICT Access and Use Survey (Q1 FY2025-26 released April 2026 with district-level data for the first time), the HIES 2022 final report (released March 2024, showing national poverty rate of 18.7% and Gini of 0.499), and Quarterly Labour Force Survey releases; State Minister Saki has publicly committed to reorganising SID for real-time data and eliminating historical data-accuracy criticisms.
Recent activity
- 2026-04-13 statement State Minister Zonayed Saki declared the government's commitment to ensuring accurate and reliable statistics, announcing that SID would be reorganised to enable real-time data collection; acknowledged past GDP-investment discrepancies and pledged to eliminate them. ↗↗
- 2026-04-16 other BBS released the ICT Access and Use Survey (Survey on Measuring the Opportunities and Usage of ICT) Q1 FY2025-26 (July-September 2025): 98.9% of households have at least one mobile phone, 56.2% have internet access (up from 43.6% in 2023), and for the first time official ICT estimates were provided at the district level. ↗↗↗
- 2026-04-30 other BBS released CPI data for April 2026 showing point-to-point inflation at 9.04%, up from 8.71% in March 2026; food inflation 8.39%, non-food inflation 9.57%; national wage rate index rose to 8.16%. ↗↗↗
- 2026-03-31 other BBS released CPI data for March 2026 showing point-to-point inflation at 8.71%, up from 9.13% in February 2026, continuing monthly CPI publication cycle under SID oversight. ↗↗
Provenance & notes
SID is a division under the Ministry of Planning (not a standalone ministry); parent_id_ref is 'Ministry of Planning'. SID's primary operational arm is the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), which is the national statistical office mandated by the Statistics Act 2013. SID was originally established as the Statistics Division in July 1975, abolished in 2002, recreated in 2010, and renamed to its current form in 2012; established_year is set to 2012 (the year of the current nomenclature). Secretary Aleya Akter (10th BCS Administration Cadre, 1991; MSc Pharmacology University of Dhaka; MBA University of Canberra) took office 25 February 2025, confirmed on the SID official website. No 'HIES 2025' release exists: HIES follows a five-year cycle and the most recent final report is HIES 2022 (released March 2024), showing national poverty rate 18.7% (down from 24.3% in 2016) and Gini coefficient 0.499. A 'Census 2026' is not confirmed in searched sources; the most recent Population and Housing Census was in 2022 (preliminary August 2022, final National Report November 2023). QLFS releases: the most recent available is Q3 2024 (July-September), uploaded January 2025. Activity score 7 reflects regular monthly CPI publication, a significant ICT survey release with new district-level data, and a high-profile political commitment to SID reorganisation -- offset by no major landmark survey release in the 90-day window. annual_budget_bdt is null: SID budget is embedded in the Ministry of Planning envelope and not separately published in primary sources reviewed. Verification based on 2+ primary sources for all factual claims.
Sources
- https://sid.gov.bd/
- https://sid.gov.bd/pages/office-heads/69403118a31054345f0cb719
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_and_Informatics_Division
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bureau_of_Statistics
- https://grokipedia.com/page/statistics_and_informatics_division
- http://nsds.bbs.gov.bd/en/about-bbs
- https://outlookbangla.com/2026/04/13/govt-committed-to-ensuring-accurate-reliable-data-saki/
- https://www.bssnews.net/others/377440
- https://www.bssnews.net/others/378471
- https://www.tbsnews.net/bangladesh/989-households-now-use-mobile-phones-bbs-1312771
- https://tob.news/56-2-of-households-now-online/
- https://www.thedailystar.net/business/economy/news/inflation-climbs-above-9-april-4169496
- https://www.jagonews24.com/en/biz-econ/news/92455
- https://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/economics/bangladesh-inflation-rises-to-9-04-in-april-amid-higher-fuel-costs-310142-newsdetails.htm
- https://tradingeconomics.com/bangladesh/inflation-cpi
- https://bbs.gov.bd/site/page/29b379ff-7bac-41d9-b321-e41929bab4a1/
- https://thefinancialexpress.com.bd/economy/bangladesh-sees-steep-decline-in-poverty-rate-amid-growing-income-inequality-bbs-report
- https://www.tbsnews.net/economy/incomes-grow-inequality-widens-615274
- https://mof.portal.gov.bd/site/budget_mof/ec795776-6fa1-4f1b-9bb7-d4ad53e7e71c/Statistics-and-Informatics-Division