Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
Good planning requires accurate data
An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.
Demographic dividend: Are we letting it pass us by?
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.
Project to reduce corruption drowns in corruption!
Country needs a National Household Database that works
Census extended by seven days for four flood-hit districts
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.
Time to prepare for rising losses from natural disasters
Govt must strengthen social protection schemes to help those most vulnerable
Women do unpaid domestic work 8 times more than men: BBS
Women spend eightfold more time than men in domestic and care work, said a new survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Inequality contradicts ‘high’ per capita income
“Per capita income is the income that is not seen by mass people but built on a few people.”
Bangladesh economy grows 7.25% in FY22: BBS
Bangladesh’s economy has grown 7.25 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year of 2021-22, powered by an expansion of manufacturing activities, according to the provisional data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Despite Covid-19 pandemic, average life expectancy of Bangladeshis goes up to 72.8 years
The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.8 years in 2020, during the outbreak of coronavirus, as compared to 72.6 years in 2019, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Good planning requires accurate data
An economy without an independent source of data is like an aircraft flying without its airspeed sensors.
Demographic dividend: Are we letting it pass us by?
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.
Project to reduce corruption drowns in corruption!
Country needs a National Household Database that works
Census extended by seven days for four flood-hit districts
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.
Time to prepare for rising losses from natural disasters
Govt must strengthen social protection schemes to help those most vulnerable
Women do unpaid domestic work 8 times more than men: BBS
Women spend eightfold more time than men in domestic and care work, said a new survey of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.
Inequality contradicts ‘high’ per capita income
“Per capita income is the income that is not seen by mass people but built on a few people.”
Bangladesh economy grows 7.25% in FY22: BBS
Bangladesh’s economy has grown 7.25 per cent in the outgoing fiscal year of 2021-22, powered by an expansion of manufacturing activities, according to the provisional data of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
Despite Covid-19 pandemic, average life expectancy of Bangladeshis goes up to 72.8 years
The average life expectancy of Bangladeshis has increased to 72.8 years in 2020, during the outbreak of coronavirus, as compared to 72.6 years in 2019, according to a report of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS).
River Erosion: Govt plans to allocate Tk 100cr for victims
The government is planning to allocate Tk 100 crore to rehabilitate the victims of river erosion across the country.
