COVID-19: Exposing and amplifying education inequality in Bangladesh

Bangladesh shows its enviable progress in all indicators for which it is considered as one of the emerging economies in the world.

It has remarkable success in social indicators such as lower child mortality rate (2.4% in 2020), maternal mortality rate at the time of birth (1.73% in 2017), increase of women’s participation in employment (36.37% in 2019), 98% enrolment at primary school, decrease in child marriage and economic indicators such as, higher GDP growth rate even in pandemic (5.2%), per capita income (US$2064 in 2020), increasing forex reserve fund (US$44.02bn on 28 February 2021), graduation to a middle-income country.