1.81 billion dollars came in in 16 days, reserves exceeded 34 billion

In the first 16 days of February, remittances or expatriate income of 1.807 million dollars came into the country. This is 21 percent more than the same period last year. Meanwhile, Bangladesh Bank is buying dollars from banks to increase expatriate income. This has increased the total foreign exchange reserves to 34.53 billion dollars. Bangladesh Bank announced this information on Tuesday (February 17).

According to the central bank, expatriate income from February 1 to 16, 2025 was 1.49 billion dollars. This increased by 1.807 million dollars during the same period this year. Of this, 152 million dollars came in on February 16 alone. This has increased the total foreign exchange reserves or stocks of Bangladesh Bank by 34.53 billion dollars, which is 29.85 billion dollars according to the IMF's accounting method BPM 6.
On February 7, the reserves were $34.06 billion, which was $29.47 billion according to the IMF's BPM 6 accounting method.

Ahead of the elections, expatriates sent an average of $112.5 million per day this month. Expatriate income or remittances to the country have increased for two months, focusing on the elections. Earlier, in the first month of this year; that is, in January, expatriate income came in at $31.7 billion. The month before that, in December, it came in at $32.2 billion.

Before that, expatriate income came in at less than $3 billion in the five months. Several bank officials said that usually, expatriate income comes in more before the two Eids in the country. Recently, expatriate income has increased mainly focusing on the elections.