Per capita income increases to $1,810

Staff Correspondent: The per capita income has increased to $1,810 as per the estimate of last month (December, 2018) which was $1,751 in November.

Abul Kalam Azad, Chief Coordinator of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Affairs at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), made the disclosure at a seminar in the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Auditorium in Agargaon, Dhaka on Wednesday.

“Bangladesh is advancing ahead with an unstoppable and fast speed for which per capita income is increasing day by day,” Azad said.

UNDP Residential Chief Sudipto Mukherjee, Director General of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) Krishna Gayen, a2i Project Director Mustafizur Rahman, among others, attended the seminar chaired by Secretary of Statistics and Informatics Division (SID) Secretary Surendranath Chakbarty.


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