Bangladesh receives $22,070.87m remittance in 2021
02 January 2022, 07:12 pm | Updated: 22 November 2024, 12:12 am
Although coronavirus hit every country in the world, Bangladesh received a record $ 22,070.87 million as remittance in 2021.
“The trend of overseas employment is satisfactory during the COVID-19 pandemic,” an official of Expatriates’ said Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry.
He said the overall manpower export from Bangladesh is expected to increase gradually although COVID-19 pandemic hit the whole world.
Expatriates income declined for six consecutive months due to the second outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even then, a record amount of remittance came to Bangladesh in the year just ended. In 2021, the expatriates sent a record $22,070.87 million to the country. Never before, so much remittance came to the country in a single year.
“We’ve been working to increase number of overseas migrant workers as well as ensure the rights and protection of them following the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,” the official said.
