Remittances stood at around $6.43 billion in three and half months in the current fiscal 2022-23, up about nine percent over that in the same period of previous fiscal.
In the same period of the previous fiscal, the figure was $5.88 billion, according to Bangladesh Bank data.
Bangladesh received $769.88 million in remittance in two weeks of October (2-13).
However, remittances stood at $2.09 in July, $2.04 billion in August and $1.54 in September in the current fiscal 2022-23.
Bangladesh fetched record $2.10 billion remittances in July, the first month of the 2022-23 fiscal year, due to Eid-ul-Azha festival when expatriate Bangladeshis usually send more money home than at other times.
The figure is the highest in 14 months and 12 percent higher than the $1.87 billion remittance the country received in the same month of the previous FY.
However, Eid-ul-Fitr was celebrated in the country on May 3. Expatriates sent a total of $2.09 billion remittance to the country in April ahead of Eid. It was the highest amount in a single month of the last fiscal year.
Meanwhile, the country received $22.07 billion in remittances in 2021, which was more than that in any other year in the history of Bangladesh. This inflow was $21.78 billion in 2020 and $18.33 billion in 2019.
This important index of the economy increased last December and January after a decline for five consecutive months (July-November 2021). In December and January, remittance was $1.63 billion and $1.70 billion respectively.
In February, this inflow dropped again as expatriates sent $1.49 billion during the time.
On the other hand, the country’s migrants sent home $1.86 billion in March ahead of Ramadan this year, which is 25 percent more than that in the previous month and also the highest in the past eight months.
