About 0.9 million Bangladeshi workers have found jobs in different job destination countries in the nine months of the current calendar year, official statistics revealed.
Data available with the Bureau of Manpower Employment and Training (BMET) showed Bangladesh sent 874,739 workers abroad during the January-September period in 2022.
Most of the workers went to Saudi Arabia, Oman and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following good demand for foreign workers in those regions, sector insiders said.
Saudi Arabia hired 513,653 or nearly 59 per cent of the total workers during the period, while Oman and the UAE hired 135,481 and 83,674 Bangladeshi workers, respectively.
However, the outflow of workers declined to some extent in September alone. A total of 92,908 workers went abroad in August and 90,814 in September, the figure showed.
Bangladesh could send 317,799 workers in the nine months of 2021.
Manpower recruiters hoped that more workers would go abroad in coming months as Malaysia has started hiring workers from Bangladesh.
Malaysia, a vital market for Bangladeshi workers, hired 4,659 workers from the country in September under the new deal, signed between the two countries in 2019.
The South East Asian country is expected to recruit more than 500,000 workers from Bangladesh in the next three years.
More than 14 million Bangladeshi workers have gone abroad since 1976. A total of 617,209 Bangladeshi found jobs abroad in 2021, while the number was 217,669 in 2020, according to the official count.
