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Bangladesh is usually best read through garments exports, remittances, and FX management, with domestic liquidity and energy supply shaping the short-term macro pulse. The cleanest read usually comes from export orders, reserve and currency stability, and whether domestic demand can keep expanding without intensifying inflation and import pressure.
Regional map
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Use the key figures to see the country’s size, currency and current economic backdrop.
Pick one variable at a time and see how it has changed over time.
The final cards explain the few forces that can move companies and the local market.
Key facts
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics,
Country dashboard
A manufacturing-led frontier market where garments, remittances, FX pressure, and domestic demand define the cycle.
Macro explorer
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Bangladesh starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Available variables
Source: Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics,
Trade and external position
The latest available data show exports of $47.1B and imports of $73.5B, leaving an external balance of −$26.4B. Services account for 16.0% of total exports.
This is the broadest external-demand read for Bangladesh, because it combines merchandise shipments with cross-border services such as travel, transport, finance, and business services.
This is the merchandise side of the export machine for Bangladesh, useful for judging industrial, energy, and manufacturing exposure in the trade mix.
This shows how much Bangladesh monetizes travel, logistics, finance, software, licensing, and other non-merchandise external flows.
Trade partners
Commodity lens
Trade in goods and services equaled 26.8% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 16.0% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 94.5% of merchandise exports in 2018.
Fuel exports accounted for 1.1% of merchandise exports in 2018, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 3.4% of merchandise exports in 2018, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source: World Bank API: totalExports,
What to watch
Bangladesh should first be read through garments exports. When this regime shifts, local how highly shares are valued and sector leadership usually shift with it.
The cleanest read usually comes from export orders, reserve and currency stability, and whether domestic demand can keep expanding without intensifying inflation and import pressure. That makes remittances one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
The final layer is fx stability, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable profits support for the DSEX.
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Real GDP growth
What This Signals
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 0.8%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.