GDP figure to be published quarterly

The government has decided to publish the data for the gross domestic product (GDP) on a quarterly basis, a senior official said yesterday.

Mohammad Yamin Chowdhury, secretary of the Statistics and Informatics Division, said the provisional GDP data would be disclosed every quarter, and the annual figure would be unveiled at the end of the fiscal year. However, he could not give the exact time frame for the shift to the disclosure of the economic growth figure quarterly.

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics currently provides the provisional yearly accounts of GDP before issuing the final figure.