Desk Report:
Remittances or expatriate income has maintained a positive trend in September as well. About 2.03 billion dollars in remittances were received in the first 21 days of the month. If this trend continues, remittances could cross the 3 billion dollar mark by the end of the month.
This information was revealed by Bangladesh Bank sources on Monday.
Bangladesh Bank Executive Director and Spokesperson Arif Hossain Khan said that remittances of 2031 million or 2.03 billion dollars were received in the 21st of September; the amount in Bangladeshi currency is about 24,778 crore taka (based on 122 taka per dollar). Remittances received in the same period last year were 1630 million dollars. And from July to September 21st of the first month of the current 2025-26 fiscal year, 693 million dollars were received. In the last 2024-25 fiscal year, 577 million dollars were received. Accordingly, the growth in remittances is 20.1 percent.
Earlier, in July, the first month of the 2025-26 fiscal year, remittances worth $247.791 billion came to the country, which is about 30,239 billion taka in Bangladeshi taka. And in August, $242.2 billion or 29,548.40 billion taka came. In March of the 2024-25 fiscal year, remittances of $3.29 billion were the highest in the country’s history. And in the entire fiscal year, expatriate income came in at $30.33 billion, which is 26.8 percent more than the previous fiscal year. In the 2023-24 fiscal year, remittances came in at $23.91 billion.
