Over 1 mln Bangladeshis find overseas jobs in 2025
Jan 19, 2026
Dhaka [Bangladesh], January 19: More than one million Bangladeshis found overseas jobs in 2025, up 11.74 percent over the previous year, an official said Sunday.
An official of the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) told Xinhua that a total of 1,130,757 people found jobs abroad in 2025, up from 1,011,969 in 2024.
Of the total overseas employment in the last year, the official said more than three-fourths of Bangladeshi workers found jobs in Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.
According to the BMET statistics, 752,715 secured jobs in Saudi Arabia and 107,472 in Qatar, while Singapore and Kuwait received 70,056 and 72,717 Bangladeshis, respectively.
Officials said that Bangladesh's interim government is working to increase the number of people employed overseas to maintain a steady flow of remittances, a key source of foreign exchange for the country.
Remittances from some five million Bangladeshis, currently living and working abroad, hit an all-time high of over 30 billion U.S. dollars in the fiscal year from July 2024 to June 2025.
Source: Xinhua
