2024-02-19 01:37:58
In the first 16 days of this February, remittances equal to USD 115 million sent by expatriates through legal channels and banking channels have arrived in the country. In local currency, the amount is 12 thousand 650 crores (110 rupees per dollar). Daily average of 7 million 19 million remittances.
Earlier, in the first 9 days of this month, expatriates remitted 631.7 million US dollars.
This information is known from the updated report of Bangladesh Bank on Sunday (February 18).
In January of this year, remittances came to the country of 2100 million US dollars.
According to the data, on February 16, 114 million 99 million dollars came into the banking channel. Among them, 13.84 million dollars came through state-owned banks, 5.25 million dollars through a specialized bank, 95.65 million dollars through private banks and 2.5 million dollars through foreign banks.
In the last month of December 2023, expatriates sent remittances of 199 million dollars.
In January 2023, remittances were $195.88 million, February $156 million, March $202 million, April $168 million, May $169 million, June $220 million, July $197 million, August $159 million, September $133 million, October 197 crores, November 193 crores of remittances came.
In the last financial year 2022-23, the total remittance received in the country was 2 thousand 161 crore 7 lakh US dollars. In the previous financial year 2021-2022, the total remittance came to 2 thousand 103 crore 17 million US dollars. In FY 2020-21, remittances came in at US$ 2,477 crore, which was the highest amount of remittances in any financial year.