{"id":407641,"date":"2026-01-14T02:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407641\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T02:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T02:01:33","slug":"gdp-growth-rises-to-4-50-in-first-quarter-of-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/407641\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP growth rises to 4.50% in first quarter of FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to provisional quarterly estimates released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) yesterday (12 January), overall GDP growth at constant prices stood at 3.72% in the 2024\u201325 fiscal year. <\/p>\n

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Bangladesh’s economic growth gained momentum in the first quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year, with point-to-point GDP growth at constant prices rising to 4.50%, up from 2.58% in the same period of the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n

According to provisional quarterly estimates released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) yesterday (12 January), overall GDP growth at constant prices stood at 3.72% in the 2024\u201325 fiscal year.<\/p>\n

However, the BBS noted that there are some differences between the provisional annual GDP estimates for 2024-25 and the quarterly estimates. These discrepancies will be adjusted through benchmarking in line with internationally accepted methods once the final GDP figures for the fiscal year are determined.<\/p>\n


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Sector-wise data show a notable recovery in agriculture. In the first quarter of 2025-26, agricultural growth reached 2.30%, compared to negative growth of 0.60% in the same quarter of the previous year.<\/p>\n

Growth in the industrial sector strengthened further, recording 6.97% in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, nearly double the 3.59% growth posted in the corresponding quarter of 2024-25.<\/p>\n

The services sector also saw an upward trend, with growth rising to 3.67% in the first quarter of 2025-26 from 2.96% a year earlier. The improvement was driven by a gradual increase in domestic demand and business activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to provisional quarterly estimates released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) yesterday (12 January), overall GDP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[169585,5395,5394,140527,45,169580,49,48,136441,51037,46,106739,169586,169579,856,169584,10010,169582,16943,27721,169581,169583,106737,23098,106738],"class_list":["post-407641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bangladesh-breaking-news","tag-bangladesh-news","tag-bangladeshi-newspapers","tag-bd-news","tag-business","tag-business-news-bangladesh","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-climate-news","tag-cricket-news","tag-economy","tag-economy-news-bangladesh","tag-english-daily-newspaper","tag-english-newspaper-bangladesh","tag-entertainment-news","tag-explainer-journalism","tag-financial-news","tag-global-south-news","tag-international-news","tag-lifestyle-news","tag-politics-news-bangladesh","tag-sports-news-bangladesh","tag-tbs-news","tag-tech-news","tag-the-business-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}