Country Information - Bangladesh

RbiAnnouncementWeb

Asset Publisher

Bangladesh's Economy at a Glance

Updated as on 05, 2018

PERFORMANCES OF SOME KEY MACRO ECONOMIC INDICATORS: BANGLADESH
Indicator	Unit	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17 P
I. Real Sector
Per Capita GDP	US$	687	748	766	1088	1115	1236	1385	1538
Real GDP Growth (at producers price)	%	6.1	6.7	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.6	7.1	7.2
GDP (Market Price)	Billion US$	100.4	111.9	115.7	129.9	173.8	195.2	221	248.8
Agriculture	% of GDP	20.3	18	17.4	16.8	16.1R	15.5	14.8	14.2
Industry	% of GDP	29.9	27.4	28.1	29	27.6R	28.2	28.8	29.3
Services	% of GDP	49.8	54.6	54.5	54.2	56.3R	56.4	56.5	56.5
Investment	% of GDP	24.4	27.4	28.2	28.4	28.6R	28.9	29.7	30.3
National Savings	% of GDP	30	29	29.9	30.5	29.2R	29	30.8	30.3
Headline Inflation	%	7.3	8.8	10.6	6.8*	7.4*	6.4	5.9	5.5
- Food Inflation	%	8.5	11.3	10.4	5.2*	8.6*	6.7	4.9	4.5
- Non-Food Inflation	%	5.5	4.2	11.1	9.2*	5.5*	6	7.5	7.1
Core inflation	%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	6.74	8.21	3.55
II. Fiscal Sector
Revenue Collection	Billion US$	11.5	13.4	15	17.5	18.1	18.8R	22.1R	27.6
Fiscal Deficit (excluding grants)	% of GDP	3.7	4.4	5	4.8	4.1	3.9R	3.8R	5
Fiscal Deficit (including grants)	% of GDP	3.3	3.8	4.6	4.3	3.5	3.7R	3.7R	4.8
Public Debt*	% of GDP	32.3	32.4	31.8	30	29.1	27.3	27.7	27.1
- of which foreign currency	% of GDP	17.6	17.2	16.6	14.9	14.1	12.1	11.9	11.4
- domestic debt#	% of GDP	14.7	15.2	15.2	15.1	15	15.2	15.8	15.7
- debt servicing^	% of total revenue	7.7	6.9	6.5	6.3	7.2	5.2	4.75	4.14
III. External Sector
Exports (f.o.b)	Billion US$	16.2	22.6	24	26.6	30.2	30.7	33.4	34.0R
Imports (f.o.b.)	Billion US$	21.4	30.3	33.3	33.6	36.6	37.7	39.9R	43.5R
Trade Deficit	Billion US$	5.2	7.7	9.3	7	6.8	7	6.5R	9.5R
Remittances	Billion US$	11	11.7	12.8	14.5	14.2	15.3	14.9	12.8R
Current Account Balance	Billion US$	3.7	-1.7	-0.4	2.4	1.4	3.5R	4.2R	-1.5R
Current Account Balance	% of GDP	3.7	1.5	0.3	1.9	0.9	0.8	1.9	-0.6
Total Foreign Investment	Million US$	796	740	1193	2094	2369	1551R	1424R	2164R
- Foreign Direct Investment	Million US$	913	768	995	1726	1432	1172R	1285R	1706R
- Portfolio Investment	Million US$	-117	-28	198	368	937	379	139R	458R
External Debt and Forex Liabilities	Billion US$	20.3	21.5	22.8	22.3	23.6	23.5	26.3	28.5
External Debt and Forex Liabilities	% of forex earnings	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Short-term debt to GDP	%	20.3	19.7	19.7	14.9	14.1	12.1	11.9	11.4
External Debt Servicing Ratio		4.3	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.2	4.7	3.9	4
Exchange Rate@	Per US$	69.2	71.2	79.1	79.9	77.8	77.7	78.3	79.1R
Foreign Exchange Reserves	Billion US$	10.8	10.9	10.2	15.3	21.5	25	30.2	33.5R
IV. Monetary & Capital Market
Monetary **
Growth Rate of M₁	y-o-y	28	18.7	6.4	10	14.6	14.3	32.1	13.0R
Growth Rate of M₂	y-o-y	22.4	21.3	17.4	16.7	16.1	12.4	16.3	10.9R
Growth Rate of M₃	y-o-y	23	18.9	15.5	15.3	16.5	14.8	18.3	14.6R
Weighted Avg Lending Rate	%	11.3	12.4	13.8	13.7	13.1	11.7	10.4	9.9
Credit growth to Private Sector	y-o-y	24.2	25.8	19.7	10.9	12.2	12.9	16.6	15.6
Capital Market
Stock Market (Price Index)		5111.6	6117.2	4572.9	4385.8	4480.5	4583.1	4507.6	5656.1R
Market Capitalization (as leading stock mkt)	Domestic Currency in Billion	2700.7	2853.9	2491.6	2530.2	2386.3	2701.9	2614.5	3239.4R
Market Capitalization (as leading stock mkt)	% of GDP	38.9	35.8	27.2	24.4	17.7	17.8	15.1	16.6
Market Capitalization (as leading stock mkt)	Billion US$	39	40.1	31.5	31.7	30.7	34.7	33.4	40.9R
V. Banking Sector Indicators
Capital adequacy ratio	%	9.3	11.4	10.5	9.1	10.7	10.3	10.8	10.9
Non performing loans	%	7.3	6.1	10	11.9	10.8	9.7	10.1	10.1
Profitability (R.O.E.)	%	21	17	8.2	8.2	8.4	6.6	9.4	4.7
Profitability (R.O.A.)	%	1.8	1.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.68	0.34
Note: All data are provided on the basis of Bangladesh Financial Year (July-June). This format is adopted on recommendations of the SAARCFINANC meeting on Improvement of SAARCFINANCE e-Newsletter and Development of SAARCFINANCE Scholarship Scheme, 9-10 January 2013, Dhaka Bangladesh.
*=Base 2005-06=100, # DSE= Dhaka Stock Exchange
- = Half yearly data are not available, NA= Not available
R= Revised
N/A= Not available