Female workforce shrinks, service sector dominates: BBS

Female workforce shrinks, service sector dominates: BBS

Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) has launched the primary report of the recently conducted Economic Census 2024 showing a downward trend in the share of female employees in economic units and also an unparalleled dominance of the service sector in the economy across the country.
It reveals that in 2024, the share of female employees in economic units was 6.4%, which was 7.21% in 2013. The last economic census was conducted in 2013.
About the service sector, it shows that in 2013, the number of economic units in the service sector was 6,915,982, which increased to 10,835,896 in 2024. The share of the service sector is 91.23% of the total units in 2024.