Dhaka, Dec. 6 -- The number of Bangladeshi workers going abroad with jobs is likely to reach some 11 lakh by this year.

About 102,900 Bangladeshi workers have already gone abroad till November, 2022, according to the data of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET).

BMET data shows that the country sent 93,000 workers on average per month this year.

In the pre-Covid pandemic period, the number was around 60,000 to 70,000, according to the BMET data.

It also shows that 9,47,873 migrant workers leave country till the October this year while the number was 6,17,209 in the same period in the previous year.

Meanwhile, the country sent 2,17,669 workers abroad in the same period in 2020 during the pandemic.

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