WEEKLY SELECTED ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Chief Economist's Unit

(Policy Support Wing)
09 March 2023
07 March 2022 R 28 February 2023 07 March 2023
30 June, 2022
1.
Foreign Exchange Reserve (In million US$) 43971.08 41826.73 32333.71 31147.25
07 March 2022 30 June, 2022 28 February 2023 07 March 2023
2.
Interbank Taka-USD Exchange Rate (Average) 86.0000 93.4500 105.5080 106.3565
Call Money Rate 07 March 2022 30 June, 2022 28 February 2023 07 March 2023
3.
Weighted Average Rate ( in Percent) 2.95 4.42 6.16 6.03
Percentage change
Broad/Overall Share Price Index 07 March 2022 30 June, 2022 07 March 2023
From June, 2022 From June, 2021
4.
a) Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE)@ 6456.51 6376.94 6262.31 -1.80 4.98
b) Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) 18989.12 18727.52 18445.59 -1.51 6.71
February, 2022 July-Feb, FY22 February, 2023P July-Feb, FY23P FY2021-22
5. a) Wage Earners' Remittances (In million US$) 1494.47 13438.53 1561.26 14013.39 21031.68
b) Annual Percentage Change -16.07 -19.47 4.47 4.28 -15.12
January, 2022 July-Jan, FY22 January, 2023P July-Jan, FY23P FY2021-22
a) Import (C&F) (In million US$) 8326.80 50449.30 6371.50 47566.00 89162.30
b) Annual Percentage Change 15.09 46.21 -23.48 -5.72 35.93
6.
January, 2022 July-Jan, FY22 January, 2023P July-Jan, FY23P FY2021-22
a) Import(f.o.b) (In million US$) 7704.00 46675.00 5899.00 44031.00 82495.00
b) Annual Percentage Change 15.11 46.23 -23.43 -5.66 35.95
February, 2022 July-Feb, FY22 February, 2023P July-Feb, FY23P FY2021-22
7. a) Export (EPB) (In million US$)* 4294.53 33843.45 4630.18 37077.68 52082.66
b) Annual Percentage Change 34.54 30.86 7.82 9.56 34.38
July-Jan, FY22 July-Jan, FY23P FY 2021-22R
8.
Current Account Balance (In million US$) -10260.0 -5037.0 -18697.0
January, 2022 July-Jan, FY22 January, 2023P July-Jan, FY23P FY2021-22
9. a) Tax Revenue (NBR) (Tk. in crore) 24349.60 153411.00 26877.68 172309.15 301633.84
b) Annual Percentage Change 12.56 16.10 10.38 12.32 16.07
Investment in National Savings Certificates P
January, 2022 July-Jan, FY22 January, 2023 July-Jan, FY23 FY2021-22
(Tk. in crore)
10.
a) Net sale 2585.88 12175.66 37.43 -3069.43 19915.75
b) Total Outstanding 356269.57 356269.57 360940.70 360940.70 364010.13
Percentage change
January, 2022 June, 2022 January, 2023P
Jan'23 over Jan'22 Jan'23 over Jun'22 Jan'22 over Jun'21 FY2021-22
11.
a) Reserve Money (RM) (Tk. in crore) 323298.90 347162.10 352790.30 9.12 1.62 -7.12 -0.26
b) Broad Money (M2) (Tk. in crore) 1614120.30 1708122.50 1751440.80 8.51 2.54 3.41 9.43
Total Domestic Credit (Tk. in crore) 1534711.50 1671749.10 1773179.40 15.54 6.07 6.58 16.10
a) Net Credit to the Govt. Sector 232076.00 283314.60 303589.20 30.81 7.16 5.00 28.18
12.
b) Credit to the Other Public Sector 36378.10 37198.90 43564.00 19.75 17.11 21.19 23.92
c) Credit to the Private Sector 1266257.40 1351235.60 1426026.20 12.62 5.53 6.51 13.66
Percentage change
July-December, FY2021-22 July-December, FY2022-23P
July-December, FY2022-23 FY 2021-22
L/C Opening and Settlement (million US$) Opening Settlement Opening Settlement Opening Settlement Settlement
a) Consumer Goods 4699.05 4547.41 4021.86 4125.87 -14.41 -9.27 27.50
b) Capital Machinery 3673.97 2556.43 1274.02 2374.19 -65.32 -7.13 40.78
13.
c) Intermediate Goods 3870.56 3385.58 2586.20 2809.21 -33.18 -17.02 35.23
d) Petroleum 3592.41 3670.79 4875.77 5362.59 35.72 46.09 116.18
e) Industrial Raw Materials 16547.49 13569.38 12035.35 15275.93 -27.27 12.58 47.03
f) Others 11632.48 10682.10 9308.46 11427.08 -19.98 6.97 39.46
Total 11176.65
44015.96 11115.39
38411.69 13140.33
34101.66 41374.87 17.57 -22.52 #VALUE! #REF! 7.71 #VALUE! 46.15
P
Total
Rate ofL/C duringon
Inflation (July-December )
the basis of Consumer Price Index June, 2019 December, 2020 June, 2021 December, 2021 March, 2022 June, 2022 September, 2022 December, 2022 January, 2023
for National (Base:2005-06=100)
a) Twelve Month Average Basis 5.48 5.69 5.56 5.55 5.75 6.15 6.96 7.70 7.92
14. b) Point to Point Basis 5.52 5.29 5.64 6.05 6.22 7.56 9.10 8.71 8.57
Corresponding Period June, 2018 December, 2019 June, 2020 December, 2020 March, 2021 June, 2021 September, 2021 December, 2021 January, 2022

a) Twelve Month Average Basis 5.78 5.59 5.65 5.69 5.63 5.56 5.50 5.54 5.62
b) Point to Point Basis 5.54 5.75 6.02 5.29 5.47 5.64 5.59 6.05 5.86
Classified Loan December, 2019 June, 2020 December, 2020 June, 2021 December,2021 March,2022 June,2022 September,2022 December,2022

15. a) Percentage Share of Classified Loan 9.32 9.16 7.66 8.18 7.93 8.53 8.96 9.36 8.16
to Total Outstanding
b) Percentage Share of Net Classified Loan 1.02 0.15 -1.18 -0.47 -0.43 -0.07 0.49 0.90 -0.08
Agricultural and Non-farm Rural Credit (Tk. in crore)
December,'21 January,'22 July-Jan, FY22 December,'22p January,'23p July-Jan, FY23p FY 2021-22 FY 2020-21 FY 2019-20

16. a) Disbursement ** 3723.49 2558.56 17055.60 3892.42 2014.22 18684.32 28834.21 25511.35 22749.03
b) Recovery 3254.78 1870.83 15464.63 3558.65 2016.74 18446.50 27463.41 27123.90 21245.24
c) Outstanding 47659.51 48355.34 48355.34 50997.35 51225.71 51225.71 49802.28 45939.80 45592.86
SME Loan (Tk. in crore) Jan-Mar.'20-21 Apr-Jun.'20-21 Jul.-Sep.'21-22 Oct.-Dec.'21-22P Jan-Mar.'21-22P Apr-Jun.'21-22P Jul-Sept.'22-23P FY 2021-22 FY 2020-21
17. a) Disbursement 44445.67 41788.73 42075.49 57118.60 51716.69 56484.26 51676.81 207395.04 173904.82
c) Outstanding 240169.54 243074.82 245325.67 252082.09 259704.21 271448.58 273906.60 271448.58 243074.82
Industrial Term Loan (Tk. in crore) Jan-Mar.'20-21 Apr-Jun.'20-21 Jul-Sep.'21-22 Oct-Dec.'21-22P Jan-Mar.'21-22P Apr-Jun.'21-22P Jul-Sept.'22-23P FY 2021-22 FY 2020-21
a) Disbursement 17379.01 19430.74 14834.23 18772.59 17340.49 21413.63 18562.45 72360.94 68765.25
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b) Recovery 16893.10 14734.86 12979.47 18477.42 16572.97 16832.73 20610.17 64862.59 58488.71
c) Outstanding 299048.73 315294.16 303329.12 308918.45 310572.40 320410.22 328742.50 320410.22 315294.16
FY2013-14 FY2014 -15 FY2015 -16 FY2016 -17N FY2017-18N FY2018-19N FY2019-20N FY2020-21NR FY2021-22NP
19.
GDP Growth Rate (in percent, Base: 2005-06=100) 6.06 6.55 7.11 6.59 7.32 7.88 3.45 6.94 7.25
Note: ** = About 60.45% of the target for Agricultural Credit disbursement has been achieved in the first seven months of FY2022-23. P=Provisional, R=Revised, N= new base: 2015-16.
@= DSE has been publishing Broad Index instead of General Index from 1st August, 2013.
*Revised according to the revised definition (Primary Commodities+Manufactured Commodoties) of Commodity exports by EPB.