Overseas employment links local labour markets to international demand. Clearances describe one part of that process; remittances reflect a broader and longer-established population abroad.
- Observation coverage
- 2023-06 to 2026-09-20
- Source build date
- 2026-09-20
- Website refresh policy
- Weekly, each Monday
Published snapshot. A scheduled check does not imply that a new source observation is available.
Loading the published dataset…
Reading the evidence
01
A clearance is an administrative event
An employment clearance records permission to work abroad. It does not certify departure, arrival, duration of employment or earnings, and a person can appear more than once over time. The map refers to a recorded home district, not a travel route. Reading the series as a count of unique people who migrated would change the meaning of the evidence.
02
Origin and destination matter together
National totals can conceal substantial variation in the destinations connected to different districts. The monthly origin–destination cells allow comparisons within a common period and source gender category. A concentrated destination pattern may expose a district to changes in a particular labour market, but it may also reflect recruitment networks and occupational specialisation. Identifying exposure is a first step; estimating the effect of a policy change requires a separate research design.
03
Remittances are not the earnings of recent clearances
Recorded inflows include transfers associated with people who left in earlier years as well as more recent workers. The country remittance series and the district clearance series are not records of the same people. Dividing a country's remittances by its recent clearances would mix different populations and periods. The two lenses therefore use separate units and controls, without constructing an unsupported district–country remittance flow.
04
The newest observations need time to settle
Data entry can continue after the event date. Recent counts may be incomplete, and later crawls may revise historical cells. The source excludes 19 June 2023 because it acts as a changing catch-all bucket rather than an interpretable day. The national daily archive and district-mapped cube also differ in coverage and collection timing. Their difference should not be labelled as unknown-origin migrants without a reconciliation of the underlying records.
05
Rates add context without solving every comparison
Fixed 2022 all-age and working-age denominators help distinguish a large origin district from a high number of clearances relative to its population. Both remain approximations across later years and do not resolve repeated clearances. The displayed selected-period rates are not annualised. Remittance amounts remain nominal US dollars; district allocation in banking records need not coincide with the final household beneficiary's location.
Methods, sources and reuse
The source's sparse monthly clearance cube is preserved for district–country–gender filtering. Daily national counts are aggregated by calendar month with an observed-day count; the excluded catch-all date is never included. Male source cells are derived upstream by subtraction and can be affected by asynchronous crawl revisions; independent slices are not forced to reconcile. District rates offer both supplied 2022 all-age and working-age denominators. Natural Earth geometry is joined through explicit country names, with source coordinates for microstates. Bangladesh Bank month keys are converted from fiscal labels to calendar dates; district, country and national series remain separate. Per-migrant remittance divides a country aggregate by the supplied migrant-stock denominator and is labelled as a ratio rather than individual earnings.
- 1. BMET / OEP: geographic clearance counts
Primary administrative clearance source.
- 2. Bangladesh Bank: monthly remittance publications
Primary national, district and country remittance tables; source publication dates differ from crawl dates.
- 3. Bangladesh Bank: June 2025 remittance report
Example of the source's monthly and fiscal-year reporting structure.
- 4. Clearance and remittance source pipeline
Exclusions, population sources, gender derivation and coverage caveats.
Download and cite this snapshot
Institute of Policy Dynamics, “Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Remittance Inflows”. Coverage: 2023-06 to 2026-09-20. Cite the original data providers alongside IPD.
Download the complete published dataset (JSON)Source fingerprint (SHA-256): 24f95aad23e9995290f72080696e7201abcf5dd6d7a8e0242910b2c52c1dae38
Chart CSV files contain the selected observations. Original data remain subject to their providers' terms; public access alone does not establish an open licence.