Bangladesh Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data was reported at 1.538 USD bn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.385 USD bn for 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data is updated yearly, averaging 190.059 USD mn from Dec 1972 (Median) to 2024, with 53 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.831 USD bn in 2015 and a record low of -8.010 USD mn in 1979. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in the reporting economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official national sources;Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1,537.972 2024 | yearly | 1972 - 2024 |
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BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data was reported at 0.342 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.317 % for 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data is updated yearly, averaging 0.380 % from Dec 1972 (Median) to 2024, with 53 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.735 % in 2013 and a record low of -0.051 % in 1979. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Inflows: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment are the net inflows of investment to acquire a lasting management interest (10 percent or more of voting stock) in an enterprise operating in an economy other than that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. This series shows net inflows (new investment inflows less disinvestment) in the reporting economy from foreign investors, and is divided by GDP.;International Financial Statistics and Balance of Payments databases, International Monetary Fund (IMF); International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB); World Bank GDP estimates, World Bank (WB); OECD GDP estimates, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);Weighted average;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 0.342 2024 | yearly | 1972 - 2024 |
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BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data was reported at 47.103 USD mn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of -2.063 USD mn for 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data is updated yearly, averaging 2.000 USD mn from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 546.877 USD mn in 2013 and a record low of -2.063 USD mn in 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official national sources;Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 47.103 2024 | yearly | 1976 - 2024 |
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BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data was reported at 0.010 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of -0.000 % for 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data is updated yearly, averaging 0.004 % from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.365 % in 2013 and a record low of -0.000 % in 2023. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Net Outflows: % of GDP data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Foreign direct investment refers to direct investment equity flows in an economy. It is the sum of equity capital, reinvestment of earnings, and other capital. Direct investment is a category of cross-border investment associated with a resident in one economy having control or a significant degree of influence on the management of an enterprise that is resident in another economy. Ownership of 10 percent or more of the ordinary shares of voting stock is the criterion for determining the existence of a direct investment relationship. This series shows net outflows of investment from the reporting economy to the rest of the world, and is divided by GDP.;Balance of Payments database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), note: International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, supplemented by data from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and official national sources.; UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD); Official national sources;Weighted average;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 0.010 2024 | yearly | 1976 - 2024 |
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Bangladesh BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data was reported at 1.699 USD bn in 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.945 USD bn for 2017. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 USD mn from Dec 1970 (Median) to 2018, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.303 USD bn in 2014 and a record low of 0.000 USD mn in 1995. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Foreign Direct Investment: Primary Income data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Primary income on foreign direct investment covers payments of direct investment income (debit side), which consist of income on equity (dividends, branch profits, and reinvested earnings) and income on the intercompany debt (interest). Data are in current U.S. dollars.; ; International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook.; Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1,698.713 2018 | yearly | 1970 - 2018 |
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BD: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows
BD: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data was reported at -134.026 USD mn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of -169.300 USD mn for 2022. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data is updated yearly, averaging 0.000 USD mn from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2023, with 44 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 357.721 USD mn in 2014 and a record low of -354.517 USD mn in 2020. BD: BOP: Financial Account: Portfolio Equity: Net Inflows data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Portfolio equity includes net inflows from equity securities other than those recorded as direct investment and including shares, stocks, depository receipts (American or global), and direct purchases of shares in local stock markets by foreign investors. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;International Monetary Fund, Balance of Payments database, and World Bank, International Debt Statistics.;Sum;Note: Data starting from 2005 are based on the sixth edition of the IMF's Balance of Payments Manual (BPM6).
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| -133.816 2023 | yearly | 1976 - 2023 |
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BD: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation
BD: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data was reported at 1.448 USD bn in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.270 USD bn for 2022. BD: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data is updated yearly, averaging 579.900 USD mn from Dec 1971 (Median) to 2023, with 53 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 1.741 USD bn in 2008 and a record low of 15.360 USD mn in 1971. BD: BOP: Grants: Excluding Technical Cooperation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Grants are transfers made in cash, goods or services for which no repayment is required. For ODA reporting purposes, they also include forgiveness of non-military debt, support to non-governmental organisations, certain interest subsidies, and certain costs incurred in the implementation of aid. Grants to multilateral agencies intended to soften the terms of the latter’s lending are a direct resource outflow and should also be recorded as ODA grants. For OOF reporting purposes, grants for commercial purposes such as subsidies to national private investors, and grants to forgive military debt, are also included. Grant-like flows are assimilated to grants. They comprise a) loans for which the service payments are to be made into an account in the borrowing country and used in the borrowing country for its own benefit, and b) provision of commodities for sale in the recipient’s currency the proceeds of which are used in the recipient country for its own benefit. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;DAC2A: Aid (ODA) disbursements to countries and regions, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), uri: DSD_DAC2@DF_DAC2A, note: Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Geographical Distribution of Financial Flows, Development Co-operation Report, and OECD Data Explorer database. Data are available online at: https://data-explorer.oecd.org/., publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD);Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1,447.544 2023 | yearly | 1971 - 2023 |
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BD: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation
BD: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data was reported at 310.170 USD mn in 2022. This records an increase from the previous number of 240.220 USD mn for 2021. BD: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data is updated yearly, averaging 197.220 USD mn from Dec 1972 (Median) to 2022, with 51 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 310.170 USD mn in 2022 and a record low of 10.520 USD mn in 1972. BD: BOP: Grants: Technical Cooperation data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Technical cooperation grants include free-standing technical cooperation grants, which are intended to finance the transfer of technical and managerial skills or of technology for the purpose of building up general national capacity without reference to any specific investment projects; and investment-related technical cooperation grants, which are provided to strengthen the capacity to execute specific investment projects. Data are in current U.S. dollars.;World Bank, International Debt Statistics, and OECD.;Sum;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 310.170 2022 | yearly | 1972 - 2022 |
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BD: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions
BD: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data was reported at -3.362 USD bn in 2024. This records a decrease from the previous number of -1.532 USD bn for 2023. BD: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data is updated yearly, averaging 271.154 USD mn from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 294.741 USD mn in 1999 and a record low of -4.459 USD bn in 2010. BD: BOP: Net Errors and Omissions data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Net errors and omissions constitute a residual category needed to ensure that accounts in the balance of payments statement sum to zero. Net errors and omissions are derived as the balance on the financial account minus the balances on the current and capital accounts. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.;Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF);;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| -3,361.673 2024 | yearly | 1976 - 2024 |
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BD: BOP: Reserves and Related Items
BD: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data was reported at -1.132 USD bn in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of -4.969 USD bn for 2023. BD: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data is updated yearly, averaging -30.740 USD mn from Dec 1976 (Median) to 2024, with 49 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9.277 USD bn in 2020 and a record low of -10.789 USD bn in 2022. BD: BOP: Reserves and Related Items data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Bangladesh – Table BD.World Bank.WDI: Balance of Payments: Capital and Financial Account. Reserves and related items is the net change in a country's holdings of international reserves resulting from transactions on the current, capital, and financial accounts. Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency.Also included are net credit and loans from the IMF (excluding reserve position) and total exceptional financing. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.;Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF);;
| Last | Frequency | Range |
|---|---|---|
| -1,132.104 2024 | yearly | 1976 - 2024 |