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The country’s poverty rate is 18.7%, according to Planning Minister MA Mannan, while 5.6% of the population is classified as extremely poor.
At a question-and-answer session held at the Jatiya Sangsad with Speaker Dr. Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair, the minister made this statement in response to a question posed by Hazi Mohammad Selim of Dhaka-7.
According to the minister, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) based its assessment of the poverty rate on the price of necessities in 2022.
Daily food consumption, weekly food consumption, monthly non-food consumption, annual non-food consumption, education and healthcare costs, and durable goods for the home are all included in the basic cost of necessities.
