Remittance of $880 Million in First 7 Days of November

Expatriate Bangladeshis sent home $878.56 million in remittances during the first seven days of November. In Bangladeshi currency (at an exchange rate of BDT 124.32 per dollar), this amounts to approximately BDT 10,856 crore.

This information was updated by Bangladesh Bank on Sunday (November 8).

According to the central bank’s data, the remittance flow in the first seven days of this year increased by 22.7 percent compared to the same period last year. In the first seven days of November last year, the country received $647 million in remittances.