Bangla Press Desk: Expatriate Bangladeshis living in various countries sent $1.29 billion in remittances during the first 12 days of October. In local currency—calculated at a rate of Tk 123 per dollar—this amounts to Tk 15,867 crore.
Arif Hossain Khan, Executive Director and Spokesperson for Bangladesh Bank, disclosed this information on Tuesday (October 13).
According to Bangladesh Bank data, expatriates sent $1.29 billion in remittances over these 12 days in October, compared to $1.181 billion received during the same period the previous month. So far, the inflow is approximately $110 million—or 9.2 percent—higher than during the corresponding period last year.
Meanwhile, the country received $9.758 billion in remittances between July 1 and October 12 of the current fiscal year. In the same period last year, the figure stood at $8.573 billion; thus, remittances have increased by 12.70 percent year-on-year.
Earlier, a total of $2.766 billion (2.76 billion) in remittances was received during the entire month of September.
Remittances totaled $2.85876 billion in July—the first month of the current fiscal year—while $2.96668 billion arrived in August.
For context, total remittances stood at $35.58 billion in the 2025-26 fiscal year and $30.32 billion in the 2024-25 fiscal year.
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