2020's total spending for WASH was Tk 59,753 crore

Bangladesh now has 25 lakh jobless people: BBS

It hit 43.6% in 2023 from 4.8% in 2013, BBS survey finds

It should be a wake-up call for our policymakers

The National Child Labour Survey 2022 finds

There is not much in it to make us feel better in terms of its focus and measures.

Inflation followed by greedflation followed by shrinkflation – is there no way out of this trap?

The state statistics agency will publish the GDP data from the first quarter of 2024

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) last week finally made public its estimate of the amount of Boro season paddy produced in the country last year, which sadly will come to little effect as farmers will be harvesting this year’s crops within a month or so. 

With the soaring inflation rate in recent times, the importance of effective public food distribution cannot be emphasised enough.

Bangladesh's per capita income stood at $2,793 in fiscal 2021-22 -- $31 lower than the initial estimate as the steep depreciation of the taka messed up the government’s numbers.

Digital inclusion still elusive for many citizens

A total of 97.4 per cent households have mobile phones in the country, but 63.1 per cent of them do not feel the need to use internet, according to the preliminary report of a national survey.

Women in Bangladesh spend about 25 percent of their time daily on unpaid care work while men spend 3.3 percent of their time on the same.

An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.

Bangladesh is wasting its once-in-a-lifetime window of demographic dividend --  the economic growth potential that can result from a peak in working-age people -- due to its inability to create jobs.

Country needs a National Household Database that works

The districts are Sylhet, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar under Sylhet division and Netrokona under Mymensingh division, Md Dilder Hossain, project director of the census, told The Daily Star today.

Govt must strengthen social protection schemes to help those most vulnerable

Women spend eightfold more time than men in domestic and care work, said a new survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.