Billion Dollar Remittance in First 8 Days of December

In the first 8 days of December, the last month of the year, the country received $1.008 billion (100.80 crore) in remittances. On a daily average, the remittance inflow stood at $12.60 million.

Executive Director and Spokesperson of Bangladesh Bank, Arif Hossain Khan, provided this information on Tuesday (December 9).

He stated, "In the first 8 days of December, the country received $100.80 million in remittances. During the same period last year, the amount was $83.10 million. The remittance flow has increased compared to last year."

Furthermore, Arif Hossain Khan mentioned that on December 8 alone, expatriates sent home $13.10 million in remittances.

He added, "From July until December 8 of the current fiscal year, the country has received $14.046 billion in remittances, marking an 18.40 percent increase year-over-year."

Prior to this, November saw the highest remittance inflow of the current fiscal year, totaling $2.88952 billion (288 crore 95 lakh 20 thousand).

Remittances received in October and September were $2.56348 billion and $2.68588 billion, respectively. In August and July, the amounts were $2.42189 billion and $2.478 billion, respectively.

Meanwhile, throughout the last fiscal year, 2024-25, expatriates sent home $30.328 billion (3,032 crore 80 lakh) in remittances, setting a record for the highest expatriate earnings in the country's history for any single fiscal year.