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Remittance up almost 25pc in outgoing FY

Update : 15 Jun 2025, 23:02

Bangladesh received US $1.15 billion remittance in  the first 14 days of June 2025, a slowdown of 30.1 percent year-on-year.

Despite this slide, Bangladesh’s remittance earnings grew by 24.5 percent in the current fiscal year 2024-25. Bangladesh received $28.65 billion remittance so far in the FY2024-25, which was $23.01 billion in the previous FY2023- 24, UNB reports.

According to Bangladesh Bank's latest update, the expatriates have sent $1.15 billion remittance in 14 days of June 2025, which was $1.64 billion in June 2024. Last year, Eid-Ul-Azha was celebrated in the third week of June last year. As a result, remittance in that time was 30.1 percent higher.

The expatriates sent $27.5 billion remittance in 11 months (July-May) of the current FY2024- 25. The scenery of 11 months remittance is as follows-

*May $2.97 billion

*April: $2.75 billion

*March: $3.29 billion

*February: $2.53 billion.

*January: $2.19 billion

*December: $2.64 billion

*November $2.2 billion

*October: $2.39 billion

*September: $2.4 billion

*August: $2.22 billion

*In July: $ 1.91 billion

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