Dhaka, Feb. 16 -- The Financial Express reports (February 11, 2025) that the 'final economic growth for the last fiscal year was lowered by 1.60 percentage points to only 4.22 per cent as the real export earnings were much lower than the projected statistics of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) data showed. The BBS preliminary estimation put the FY 24 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth at 5.82 per cent'

BBS data further confirm that the fall of industrial production and exports are the key reasons for the downward GDP growth rate. Published data indicate that the industrial sector growth of the country was reduced to 3.51 per cent in the final GDP data (estimates published a few months ago was 6.66 per cent) in the preliminary repor...