Dhaka, Feb. 10 -- Industrial output saw a massive plunge from the ousted Sheikh Hasina government's doctored statistics in the FY24 revised export earnings estimation, causing Bangladesh's overall economic growth to fall markedly, according to official data released on Monday.

The final economic growth for the last fiscal year was lowered by 1.60 percentage points to only 4.22 per cent as real export earnings were much lower than the statistics published during the previous regime, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data showed.

The BBS preliminary estimation put the FY24 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at 5.82 per cent.

Per capita income was also reduced by $46 to $2,738 in the final record from $2,784 in the preliminary es...