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Bangladesh’s earnings from goods and services exports have fallen for the sixth month in a row compared with the same period a year earlier.
Latest figures reveal that the country earned $4.41 billion in January 2026, marking a 0.5 per cent dip from the $4.43 billion recorded in January 2025.
This downward trend, which surfaced in August last year, persists despite a slight recovery in momentum, reports bdnews24.com.
The Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) released the updated report on Monday, showing a fractional decrease of $22.3 million year-on-year.
Although the figures remain in the red, the pace of the decline has eased significantly compared with December, when earnings plummeted by 14.25 per cent to $3.97 billion.
Consequently, January saw a month-on-month increase of $440 million, representing growth of over 11 per cent.
The fiscal year began on a high note in July with a 24.76 per cent surge in exports, but the trajectory shifted downward shortly afterwards.
Point-to-point data shows contractions of 2.93 percent in August, 4.61 per cent in September, 7.43 per cent in October, and 5.54 per cent in November.
Total export receipts for the first seven months of the current fiscal year (July–January) stand at $28.41 billion, a 1.93 per cent drop from the $28.97 billion earned during the same window last year.
This performance contrasts sharply with the first seven months of FY25, which saw a robust growth of 11.68 per cent.
The primary driver of the export basket, the ready-made garment industry, brought in $3.61 billion this January, down 1.35 per cent from the $3.66 billion earned a year earlier.
Within this sector, knitwear exports fell by 2.61 percent, while woven garments saw a marginal slide of 0.07 per cent.
Agricultural exports declined by about 7 percent. Pharmaceuticals rose 13 per cent, frozen and live fish exports increased 13 percent, jute and jute products grew 12 percent and leather and leather goods exports went up 6 per cent.
Bangladesh exported $48.28 billion worth of goods and services in the first seven months of FY25.
The export target for FY26 has been set at $63.5 billion.