Manufacturing now makes up 22.4% of Bangladesh's GDP, up from 14.0% in 2000

Manufacturing value added reached 22.4% of GDP in 2025, up from 14.0% in 2000 and 14.5% in 1980.

14.0% → 22.4%

Manufacturing, value added, as a share of GDP, 2000 and 2025.

The share barely moved for two decades, staying between 12.9% and 15.9% from 1985 to 2005, and was 16.8% in 2015. The series then jumps to 20.3% in 2016, a rise of 3.6 percentage points in one year, and continues to 21.2% in 2019, 22.3% in 2023, 21.9% in 2024 and 22.4% in 2025.

For policy, the figure says that factory output is now a fifth of the economy, so productivity, power supply and trade conditions in manufacturing matter for overall growth. It does not show how many jobs the sector provides or how diversified it is: the indicator measures output only, and says nothing about which products are made.

One caveat: the step between 2015 and 2016 is large for a single year, and may partly reflect revisions to the national accounts rather than a sudden change in activity. The World Bank series does not explain it, so readers should compare the levels before and after 2016 with care.

Source: Country official statistics and World Bank staff estimates, via World Bank WDI (NV.IND.MANF.ZS).