Bangladesh’s Top 10 Exports
APRIL 1, 2017 BY
DANIEL WORKMAN
Bangladesh shipped US$38.6 billion worth of goods around the globe in 2016, up by 148.1% since 2009 when the Great Recession kicked in and up by 4.5% from 2015 to 2016.
Bangladesh’s top 10 exports are highly concentrated accounting for 96.9% of the overall value of its global shipments.
Based on statistics from the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database, Bangladesh’s total Gross Domestic Product amounted to $686.8 billion as of April 2017. Therefore, exports represent about 5.6% of total Bangladeshi economic output.
Given Bangladesh’s population of 156.2 million people, its total $38.6 billion in 2016 exports translates to roughly $250 for every resident in that country.
Bangladesh’s unemployment rate was an estimated 4.9% in 2016 same as during 2016, according to the Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook.
Bangladesh’s Top 10 Exports
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Bangladeshi global shipments during 2016. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Bangladesh.
- Knit or crochet clothing, accessories: US$16.8 billion (43.4% of total exports)
- Clothing, accessories (not knit or crochet): $16.7 billion (43.2%)
- Miscellaneous textiles, worn clothing: $977.7 million (2.5%)
- Footwear: $901.4 million (2.3%)
- Paper yarn, woven fabric: $660.9 million (1.7%)
- Fish: $612.5 million (1.6%)
- Headgear: $278.9 million (0.7%)
- Leather/animal gut articles: $255.8 million (0.7%)
- Raw hides, skins not furskins, leather: $208.5 million (0.5%)
- Vehicles : $86.1 million (0.2%)
According to
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association, or BGMEA — the garment factory owners’ industry group.
Garment exports accounted for $24 billion last year, 80 percent of Bangladesh’s total exports. And many of the country’s elected officials have a stake in those exports,
employing over four million workers. Historically, women, who make up 80 percent of garment workers.
Leather and animal gut articles were the fastest-growing among the top 10 export categories, up by 1,205% for the 7-year period starting in 2009 and led by suitcases, handbags and camera cases.
In second place for improving export sales was headgear which was appreciated 599.2%.
Footwear posted the third-fastest gain in value up by 364.5%.
Vehicles was the sole declining category among the top 10 Bangladeshi exports, down by -40.4% from 2009 to 2016.
http://www.worldstopexports.com/bangladeshs-top-10-exports/